Buluş Hakan, Şımşek Gülçin, Coşkun Ali, Koyuncu Ahmet
Keçiören Training and Research Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Ankara, Turkey.
Turk J Gastroenterol. 2011 Oct;22(5):534-6. doi: 10.4318/tjg.2011.0269.
Gossypiboma is used to describe a retained surgical swab in the body after an operation. Intraabdominal surgical sponge is an uncommon surgical error. Gossypiboma may cause serious morbidity and may lead to mortality. Gossypibomas should be included in the differential diagnosis of soft-tissue masses detected in patients with a history of a prior operation. In this case we present a 67-year-old female who had a laparotomy for acute cholecistecytitis 5 years previously and was discovered to have a retained surgical swab.
医用棉球瘤是指手术后留在体内的手术拭子。腹腔内手术海绵是一种罕见的手术失误。医用棉球瘤可能导致严重的发病情况，并可能导致死亡。对于有既往手术史的患者所检测到的软组织肿块，鉴别诊断中应考虑医用棉球瘤。在本病例中，我们报告一名67岁女性，她5年前因急性胆囊炎接受了剖腹手术，术后被发现体内留有一个手术拭子。
