Unintended retention of a ruptured radiopaque thread extending from the corner of a gauze during laparoscopy

Small gauze is used in laparoscopy; therefore, retention of gauze can occur. We experienced a case of retention of a radiopaque thread that ruptured from a piece of gauze and moved into the peritoneum during a scheduled laparoscopy. The patient was a 65-year-old woman who underwent laparoscopic-assi...

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Autores principales: Oshima, Yoshiaki, Yamamoto, Osamu, Otsuki, Akihiro, Tokunaga, Saori, Ueda, Keiichiro, Inagaki, Yoshimi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-019-0209-1
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author Oshima, Yoshiaki
Yamamoto, Osamu
Otsuki, Akihiro
Tokunaga, Saori
Ueda, Keiichiro
Inagaki, Yoshimi
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Yamamoto, Osamu
Otsuki, Akihiro
Tokunaga, Saori
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Inagaki, Yoshimi
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description Small gauze is used in laparoscopy; therefore, retention of gauze can occur. We experienced a case of retention of a radiopaque thread that ruptured from a piece of gauze and moved into the peritoneum during a scheduled laparoscopy. The patient was a 65-year-old woman who underwent laparoscopic-assisted transverse colon resection for transverse colon cancer. A commercial gauze commonly used for laparoscopy was used during the surgery. To more easily identify the gauze during surgery, radiopaque threads extending up to 3.0 cm from the two diagonal corners of the gauze body were attached. After wound closure, radiography showed a radiopaque thread-like substance in the abdomen. Minor laparotomy was performed, and part of the radiopaque thread was discovered. On postoperative day 22, the patient was in remission and discharged.
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spelling pubmed-67273412019-09-10 Unintended retention of a ruptured radiopaque thread extending from the corner of a gauze during laparoscopy Oshima, Yoshiaki Yamamoto, Osamu Otsuki, Akihiro Tokunaga, Saori Ueda, Keiichiro Inagaki, Yoshimi Patient Saf Surg Letter to the Editor Small gauze is used in laparoscopy; therefore, retention of gauze can occur. We experienced a case of retention of a radiopaque thread that ruptured from a piece of gauze and moved into the peritoneum during a scheduled laparoscopy. The patient was a 65-year-old woman who underwent laparoscopic-assisted transverse colon resection for transverse colon cancer. A commercial gauze commonly used for laparoscopy was used during the surgery. To more easily identify the gauze during surgery, radiopaque threads extending up to 3.0 cm from the two diagonal corners of the gauze body were attached. After wound closure, radiography showed a radiopaque thread-like substance in the abdomen. Minor laparotomy was performed, and part of the radiopaque thread was discovered. On postoperative day 22, the patient was in remission and discharged. BioMed Central 2019-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6727341/ /pubmed/31508150 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-019-0209-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Oshima, Yoshiaki
Yamamoto, Osamu
Otsuki, Akihiro
Tokunaga, Saori
Ueda, Keiichiro
Inagaki, Yoshimi
Unintended retention of a ruptured radiopaque thread extending from the corner of a gauze during laparoscopy
title Unintended retention of a ruptured radiopaque thread extending from the corner of a gauze during laparoscopy
title_full Unintended retention of a ruptured radiopaque thread extending from the corner of a gauze during laparoscopy
title_fullStr Unintended retention of a ruptured radiopaque thread extending from the corner of a gauze during laparoscopy
title_full_unstemmed Unintended retention of a ruptured radiopaque thread extending from the corner of a gauze during laparoscopy
title_short Unintended retention of a ruptured radiopaque thread extending from the corner of a gauze during laparoscopy
title_sort unintended retention of a ruptured radiopaque thread extending from the corner of a gauze during laparoscopy
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-019-0209-1
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