Endoscopic Removal of Retained Surgical Gauze
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Laparoscopic removal of retained surgical gauze.
Received February 2009 Accepted August 2009 INTRODUCTION Term of gossypiboma (textiloma, cottonoid, gauzoma, and muslinoma) is used to describe a retained surgical pad or gauze in the body after an operation. Retained postoperative foreign bodies, of which sponges are the most common, is a preventable condition and almost always iatrogenic.(1,2) Gossypiboma may present acutely or subacutely and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endoscopy
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0013-726X,1438-8812
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1009095