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Thu 09 Sep 2005Girl (5) died after liver biopsy - coroner
A five-year-old Dublin girl who contracted a rare parasitical disease on holiday in southern Europe died months later, not directly from that disease, but as a result of a procedure at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, the Dublin city coroner has found.
Dr Brian Farrell yesterday returned a verdict of "medical misadventure" at the close of the inquest into the death of April McCarthy at the hospital on October 2nd, 2003.
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