Intrathoracic gossypiboma

Intrathoracic gossypiboma: a diagnostic challenge.

Intrathoracic gossypiboma causing intractable cough.

A 45-year old woman presented with a 5-month history of coughing, eight months after surgery for post-tubercular fibrosis with bronchiectasis. Upon computerized tomography (CT) scanning, a sponge-like structure was seen in the pneumonectomy cavity near the stump of the right main bronchus. Bronchoscopic examination revealed a whitish mass blocking the right main bronchial stump which, upon atte...

CT features of intrathoracic gossypiboma (textiloma).

Here, we present chest radiography and computed tomography (CT) findings for three cases of mediastinal and pleural gossypiboma. Radiological manifestations varied according to the locations and chronicities of the gauze sponges and the types of reactions that they caused. CT analysis readily diagnosed gossypibomas in the early postoperative period by showing well-defined mediastinal- or pleura...

A Rare Cause of Chronic Cough: Intrathoracic Gossypiboma

Intrathoracic gossypiboma, a retained surgical sponge in the thoracic cavity, is a rare but serious complication of thoracic surgeries. A 70-year-old man presented with an eight-month history of cough. He had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery eight years ago. The posteroanterior chest X-ray revealed a well-marginated homogeneous opacity at the left hemithorax with striped appearance in t...

Forty-year-old intrathoracic gossypiboma after cardiac valve surgery.

A 59-year-old asymptomatic man, who had undergone cardiac valve surgery 40 years earlier, demonstrated a paracardiac mass on routine chest x-ray (Figure 1). Subsequently, a chest computed tomography scan was performed, which showed a 14.0 9.5 cm heterogeneous lesion, with lobulated contours, along the inferior aspect of the left and right ventricles (Figure 2). It was possible to identify areas...