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Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Trans-visceral migration of retained surgical gauze as a cause of intestinal obstruction: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Trans-visceral migration of retained surgical gauze as a cause of intestinal obstruction: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Trans-visceral migration of retained surgical gauze as a cause of intestinal obstruction a case report Nello Grassi Calogero Cipolla Adriana Torcivia Alessandro Bottino Eugenio Fiorentino Leonardo Ficano and Gianni Pantuso Address Department of Oncology - Division of General and Oncological Surgery University of Palermo Palermo Italy Email Nello Grassi - NG40147@policlinico.pa.it Calogero Cipolla - calogerocipolla@virgilio.it Adriana Torcivia - adrianatorcivia@libero.it Alessandro Bottino - AB40613@policlinico.pa.it Eugenio Fiorentino - efiorentino@unipa.it Leonardo Ficano - leoficano@tin.it Gianni Pantuso - gianpant@katamail.com Corresponding author Published 24 January 2008 Received 17 January 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 17 doi 10.1186 1752-1947-2-17 Accepted 24 January 2008 This article is available from http www.jmedicalcasereports.cOm content 2 1 17 2008 Grassi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction A retained surgical sponge in the abdomen is uncommon although it is likely that this finding is underreported in the medical literature. The intravisceral migration of retained surgical gauze is even rarer as demonstrated by the very few cases reported. Case presentation Three years after undergoing anterior resection of the rectum a 75-year-old man presented with symptoms of small bowel obstruction. Plain abdominal radiography and CT showed a radio-opaque marker a foreign body was suspected probably a piece of retained surgical gauze. An ileotomy of about 5 cm. was performed to confirm this diagnosis and remove the gauze. Conclusion Although rare retained gauze in the abdomen is a complication of .