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Textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass

Items such as cotton or gauze pads can be mistakenly left behind during operations. Such foreign materials (called textilomas or gossypibomas) cause foreign body reaction in the surrounding tissue. The complications caused by these foreign bodies are well known, but cases are rarely published becaus...

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Autores principales: Okten, Ali Ihsan, Adam, Mehmet, Gezercan, Yurdal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1602194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16736201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-006-0136-6
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author Okten, Ali Ihsan
Adam, Mehmet
Gezercan, Yurdal
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description Items such as cotton or gauze pads can be mistakenly left behind during operations. Such foreign materials (called textilomas or gossypibomas) cause foreign body reaction in the surrounding tissue. The complications caused by these foreign bodies are well known, but cases are rarely published because of medico-legal implications. Some textilomas cause infection or abscess formation in the early stage, whereas others remain clinically silent for many years. Here, we describe a case of textiloma in which the patient presented with low-back pain 4 years after lumbar discectomy. Imaging revealed an abcess-like mass in the lumbar epidural space.
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spelling pubmed-16021942008-08-28 Textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass Okten, Ali Ihsan Adam, Mehmet Gezercan, Yurdal Eur Spine J Case Report Items such as cotton or gauze pads can be mistakenly left behind during operations. Such foreign materials (called textilomas or gossypibomas) cause foreign body reaction in the surrounding tissue. The complications caused by these foreign bodies are well known, but cases are rarely published because of medico-legal implications. Some textilomas cause infection or abscess formation in the early stage, whereas others remain clinically silent for many years. Here, we describe a case of textiloma in which the patient presented with low-back pain 4 years after lumbar discectomy. Imaging revealed an abcess-like mass in the lumbar epidural space. Springer-Verlag 2006-05-31 2006-10 /pmc/articles/PMC1602194/ /pubmed/16736201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-006-0136-6 Text en © Springer-Verlag 2006
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Okten, Ali Ihsan
Adam, Mehmet
Gezercan, Yurdal
Textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass
title Textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass
title_full Textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass
title_fullStr Textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass
title_full_unstemmed Textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass
title_short Textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass
title_sort textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1602194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16736201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-006-0136-6
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