Failure to Heal of Thyroidectomy Wound Due to Gossypiboma and Stitch Sinus: Report of Two Cases

This case series presents two females, 53 and 33 years old, with thyroidectomy wounds that failed to heal, 16 and 18 weeks, respectively, following the operation. The wounds were explored with removal of gauze and catgut suture. The patients made remarkable improvement and the wounds healed satisfac...

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Autores principales: Musa, Adewale A., Banjo, Adekunbi, Agboola, Oladeji, Osinupebi, Olubunmi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3461773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23066459
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2006-8808.100349
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author Musa, Adewale A.
Banjo, Adekunbi
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Osinupebi, Olubunmi
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description This case series presents two females, 53 and 33 years old, with thyroidectomy wounds that failed to heal, 16 and 18 weeks, respectively, following the operation. The wounds were explored with removal of gauze and catgut suture. The patients made remarkable improvement and the wounds healed satisfactorily within seven days. Surgical materials forgotten intraoperatively, wrong use of and / or infected surgical materials should be considered when surgical wounds fail to heal.
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spelling pubmed-34617732012-10-12 Failure to Heal of Thyroidectomy Wound Due to Gossypiboma and Stitch Sinus: Report of Two Cases Musa, Adewale A. Banjo, Adekunbi Agboola, Oladeji Osinupebi, Olubunmi J Surg Tech Case Rep Case Report This case series presents two females, 53 and 33 years old, with thyroidectomy wounds that failed to heal, 16 and 18 weeks, respectively, following the operation. The wounds were explored with removal of gauze and catgut suture. The patients made remarkable improvement and the wounds healed satisfactorily within seven days. Surgical materials forgotten intraoperatively, wrong use of and / or infected surgical materials should be considered when surgical wounds fail to heal. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3461773/ /pubmed/23066459 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2006-8808.100349 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Surgical Technique and Case Report http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Musa, Adewale A.
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Agboola, Oladeji
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Failure to Heal of Thyroidectomy Wound Due to Gossypiboma and Stitch Sinus: Report of Two Cases
title Failure to Heal of Thyroidectomy Wound Due to Gossypiboma and Stitch Sinus: Report of Two Cases
title_full Failure to Heal of Thyroidectomy Wound Due to Gossypiboma and Stitch Sinus: Report of Two Cases
title_fullStr Failure to Heal of Thyroidectomy Wound Due to Gossypiboma and Stitch Sinus: Report of Two Cases
title_full_unstemmed Failure to Heal of Thyroidectomy Wound Due to Gossypiboma and Stitch Sinus: Report of Two Cases
title_short Failure to Heal of Thyroidectomy Wound Due to Gossypiboma and Stitch Sinus: Report of Two Cases
title_sort failure to heal of thyroidectomy wound due to gossypiboma and stitch sinus: report of two cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3461773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23066459
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2006-8808.100349
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