A Pictorial Review of the Many Faces of Gossypiboma – Observations in 6 Cases

Gossypiboma or textiloma is the result of a foreign-body reaction to extraneous material, usually a surgical sponge that was accidentally retained within the body. The diagnosis of a retained surgical sponge is often delayed due to its infrequent occurrence and protean appearances. The purpose of th...

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Autores principales: Pole, Gayatri, Thomas, Bright
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2017
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5549714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28819464
http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/PJR.900745
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description Gossypiboma or textiloma is the result of a foreign-body reaction to extraneous material, usually a surgical sponge that was accidentally retained within the body. The diagnosis of a retained surgical sponge is often delayed due to its infrequent occurrence and protean appearances. The purpose of this pictorial review is to define the common sonographic and CT features of gossypiboma. A retrospective review of sonographic and CT images of 6 surgically proven cases of retained surgical sponges was undertaken.
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spelling pubmed-55497142017-08-17 A Pictorial Review of the Many Faces of Gossypiboma – Observations in 6 Cases Pole, Gayatri Thomas, Bright Pol J Radiol Review Article Gossypiboma or textiloma is the result of a foreign-body reaction to extraneous material, usually a surgical sponge that was accidentally retained within the body. The diagnosis of a retained surgical sponge is often delayed due to its infrequent occurrence and protean appearances. The purpose of this pictorial review is to define the common sonographic and CT features of gossypiboma. A retrospective review of sonographic and CT images of 6 surgically proven cases of retained surgical sponges was undertaken. International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2017-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5549714/ /pubmed/28819464 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/PJR.900745 Text en © Pol J Radiol, 2017 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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