A case of abdominal textiloma following gynecologic surgery at the Yaounde Central Hospital, Cameroon

Textiloma is the inadvertent retention of a textile foreign body on the surgical site. It is a rare complication of surgery but which carries severe consequences for both patients and surgeons in terms of morbi-mortality and medico-legal procedures respectively. We herein report the case of an abdom...

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Autores principales: Fouelifack, Florent Ymele, Fouogue, Jovanny Tsuala, Fouedjio, Jeanne Hortence, Sando, Zacharie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24876905
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.16.147.3201
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author Fouelifack, Florent Ymele
Fouogue, Jovanny Tsuala
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Sando, Zacharie
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description Textiloma is the inadvertent retention of a textile foreign body on the surgical site. It is a rare complication of surgery but which carries severe consequences for both patients and surgeons in terms of morbi-mortality and medico-legal procedures respectively. We herein report the case of an abdominal textiloma in a 42 year old woman who underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy for symptomatic leiomyomas. We also depict the errors that led to this mishap in a tertiary hospital in Yaounde (Cameroon). The textiloma was recognized six weeks after the causative surgery and removed by laparotomy without further complications.
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spelling pubmed-40310942014-05-29 A case of abdominal textiloma following gynecologic surgery at the Yaounde Central Hospital, Cameroon Fouelifack, Florent Ymele Fouogue, Jovanny Tsuala Fouedjio, Jeanne Hortence Sando, Zacharie Pan Afr Med J Case Report Textiloma is the inadvertent retention of a textile foreign body on the surgical site. It is a rare complication of surgery but which carries severe consequences for both patients and surgeons in terms of morbi-mortality and medico-legal procedures respectively. We herein report the case of an abdominal textiloma in a 42 year old woman who underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy for symptomatic leiomyomas. We also depict the errors that led to this mishap in a tertiary hospital in Yaounde (Cameroon). The textiloma was recognized six weeks after the causative surgery and removed by laparotomy without further complications. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4031094/ /pubmed/24876905 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.16.147.3201 Text en © Florent Ymele Fouelifack et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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 work is properly cited.
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Fouelifack, Florent Ymele
Fouogue, Jovanny Tsuala
Fouedjio, Jeanne Hortence
Sando, Zacharie
A case of abdominal textiloma following gynecologic surgery at the Yaounde Central Hospital, Cameroon
title A case of abdominal textiloma following gynecologic surgery at the Yaounde Central Hospital, Cameroon
title_full A case of abdominal textiloma following gynecologic surgery at the Yaounde Central Hospital, Cameroon
title_fullStr A case of abdominal textiloma following gynecologic surgery at the Yaounde Central Hospital, Cameroon
title_full_unstemmed A case of abdominal textiloma following gynecologic surgery at the Yaounde Central Hospital, Cameroon
title_short A case of abdominal textiloma following gynecologic surgery at the Yaounde Central Hospital, Cameroon
title_sort case of abdominal textiloma following gynecologic surgery at the yaounde central hospital, cameroon
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24876905
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.16.147.3201
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