Retained surgical sponge after laparotomy

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jun 1985 English Publisher:Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)Journal:Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, volume 28, pages 451-453 (issn: 0012-3706,

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Authors: N M, Gupta; A, Chaudhary; V, Nanda; A K, Malik; J D, Wig;

doi: 10.1007/bf02560235

pmid: 4006639

Retained surgical sponge after laparotomy

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Abstract

Erosion of a retained surgical sponge into the intestine is an unusual occurrence and may make its appearance months or years later. The demonstration of a distended bowel by the barium-impregnated mass with multiple polypoidal filling defects in a patient who has undergone previous laparotomy should lead the physician to suspect a retained surgical sponge. Surgical intervention is rewarding.

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ESI - Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science and Research
India

Keywords

Adult, Radiography, Colonic Diseases, Laparotomy, Intestinal Fistula, Humans, Female, Jejunal Diseases, Peritoneum, Foreign Bodies

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