| Retained surgical gauze after cesarean section |
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| Saturday, 28 August 2010 04:32 |
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History (HX): A 39 years old woman , Palpable mass after surgery fever Findings: Large low attenuated mass in left abdominal cavity containing bizarre-shaped high dense stranding
Diagnostic (DX): Retained surgical gauze after cesarean section (pseudotumor) Discussion: A foreign body left behind during an operation is a severe medicologal issue. In spite of careful intraopeartive, precoutions and gauze counts, mistakes can still occur. These errors seem most frequent in general surgery, followed by gynecology and obstetrics and orthopedics in most instances the retained foreign body induces a foreign body reaction. However pesudotumor formation rarely occurs in long-term retention |
