Retained intra-abdominal surgical sponge causing ileocolic fistula diagnosed by colonoscopy
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Retained surgical sponge.
Background: A 36-year-old male presented to the emergency department with a 4-day history of vomiting, loss of appetite and gastric pain radiating to the back. He denied fever and diarrhea. His medical record includes a Billroth-II procedure in another hospital for gastric lymphoma in 1992, hepatitis C and ferriprive anemia. Vital signs in the emergency department were normal. The abdomen was s...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2210-2612
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2020.01.018