A hospital has agreed to pay $17 million to the family of a toddler who suffered brain damage following surgery to remove a cyst from his throat.
In October, 19-month-old David Colcol went to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for treatment of a thyroglossal cyst — a congenital growth in the throat.
These cysts are typically removed with the Sistrunk procedure, a surgery that removes the cyst as well as the middle portion of the hyoid bone in the throat.
In their complaint filed …