Palestrant v. Garcia

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Davis, J., and a jury), entered July 25, 1996, in a medical malpractice action, in favor of defendants and against plaintiffs, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiffs claim that defendants failed to detect and diagnose that the infant plaintiff was developing a rare form of kidney cancer known as Wilms’ tumors. The jury chose to credit the *200testimony of defendants’ expert, Dr. Beckwith, that given the position and rapid rate of growth of such tumors, defendants could not have palpated the tumor on the child’s right kidney when they…