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Soft-tissue textiloma: a potential diagnostic pitfall.

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: The reported frequency of accidentally forgotten foreign bodies in surgery varies between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 10 000 interventions.1 The real incidence of retained gauze is hard to determine because of difficulty in obtaining an accurate figure for the occurrence of new cases. Moreover, most patients with retained intra-abdominal gauze may remain asymptomatic, and its presence may be discovered incidentally after many years.2 We report such a case of a textiloma that was found many years after the initial causative procedure.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: Elyazid Mouhsine, Nermin Halkic, Raffaele Garofalo, Sophia Taylor, Nicolas Theumann, Louis Guillou, Pierre François Leyvraz

Institutions: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Hôpital Orthopédique de la Suisse Romande

Language: English

Topic: Hemostasis and retained surgical items

Subfield: Hematology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W34071879

FWCI: 0.788

Cites: 4

Cited by: 32

Related to: 10