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<p>Despite the meticulous monitoring of surgical material using the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, gauze sponges and surgical instruments continue to be left inside patients after operations. It is an important issue for surgeons, operating room nurses and the entire medical team. Foreign bodies retained in the system may cause many disorders and result in potentially serious consequences for patients, including death. As well as this, further procedures are needed to remove them and treat any subsequent complications. Retained foreign bodies are rare, but intraluminal migration of the foreign body should be considered extraordinary. Very few cases have been reported so far. The authors believe that it is desirable to perform a wide range of diagnostic imaging in such cases.</p>
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Despite the meticulous monitoring of surgical material using the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, gauze sponges and surgical instruments continue to be left inside patients after operations. It is an important issue for surgeons, operating room nurses and the entire medical team. Foreign bodies retained in the system may cause many disorders and result in potentially serious consequences for patients, including death. As well as this, further procedures are needed to remove them and treat any subsequent complications. Retained foreign bodies are rare, but intraluminal migration of the foreign body should be considered extraordinary. Very few cases have been reported so far. The authors believe that it is desirable to perform a wide range of diagnostic imaging in such cases.

Radiopaque gauze migrating into the intestine – a case presentation

Saint Hedwig’s of Silesia Hospital in Trzebnica, Department of General Surgery

Department of General, Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery

Public Higher Medical Professional School in Opole, Department of Medical Sciences

Pomeranian Journal of Life Sciences

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{"article-title":"Radiopaque gauze migrating into the intestine \u2013 a case presentation"}

Despite the meticulous monitoring of surgical material using the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, gauze sponges and surgical instruments continue to be left...

Radiopaque gauze migrating into the intestine – a case presentation

Publicado en línea: 07 ene 2021

Páginas: 14 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.689

Palabras clave
retained surgical item, foreign body, iatrogenic diseases, gossypiboma

© 2020 Dominika Pupka et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Radiopaque gauze migrating into the intestine – a case presentation

Publicado en línea: 07 ene 2021

Páginas: 14 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.689

Palabras claveretained surgical item, foreign body, iatrogenic diseases, gossypiboma

© 2020 Dominika Pupka et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
retained surgical item, foreign body, iatrogenic diseases, gossypiboma