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Surgical Management of Gossypiboma: A Case Report

Gossypiboma is a rarely reported surgical complication and refers to a retained surgical textile in the body after a procedure. The surrounding inflammation and reaction often manifest as acute pain and subsequently require additional surgery. We report the case of a 33-year-old female who presented...

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Autores principales: George Teressa, Sneha, Saxena, Juhi, Afzal, Muhammad, Morel, Bruce
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10634613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37954705
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46797
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description Gossypiboma is a rarely reported surgical complication and refers to a retained surgical textile in the body after a procedure. The surrounding inflammation and reaction often manifest as acute pain and subsequently require additional surgery. We report the case of a 33-year-old female who presented with acute abdominal pain one month after undergoing an exploratory laparotomy secondary to a gunshot wound in her home country. A diagnosis of retained foreign body was made with radiological imaging and confirmed upon the retrieval of two surgical sponges after the operation. Due to the high morbidity and mortality as well as increased healthcare costs, strict protocols must be followed to avoid such outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-106346132023-11-10 Surgical Management of Gossypiboma: A Case Report George Teressa, Sneha Saxena, Juhi Afzal, Muhammad Morel, Bruce Cureus Anatomy Gossypiboma is a rarely reported surgical complication and refers to a retained surgical textile in the body after a procedure. The surrounding inflammation and reaction often manifest as acute pain and subsequently require additional surgery. We report the case of a 33-year-old female who presented with acute abdominal pain one month after undergoing an exploratory laparotomy secondary to a gunshot wound in her home country. A diagnosis of retained foreign body was made with radiological imaging and confirmed upon the retrieval of two surgical sponges after the operation. Due to the high morbidity and mortality as well as increased healthcare costs, strict protocols must be followed to avoid such outcomes. Cureus 2023-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10634613/ /pubmed/37954705 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46797 Text en Copyright © 2023, George Teressa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Surgical Management of Gossypiboma: A Case Report
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title_full Surgical Management of Gossypiboma: A Case Report
title_fullStr Surgical Management of Gossypiboma: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Surgical Management of Gossypiboma: A Case Report
title_short Surgical Management of Gossypiboma: A Case Report
title_sort surgical management of gossypiboma: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10634613/
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