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Natural History of the Retained Surgical Sponge

Southern Medical Journal, 1982
Retained surgical sponge is an infrequently reported condition that may be recognized incidentally during the early postoperative period, produce serious complications, or remain dormant for years. Clinical manifestations of the retained surgical sponge are a function of bacterial contamination and of the location of the sponge within the body cavity ...
J W, Hyslop, K I, Maull
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RADIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF RETAINED SURGICAL SPONGES

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1955
As long as nonabsorbable materials are used in the manufacture of surgical gauze, the specter of the retained sponge or laparotomy pack will continue to be a nightmare to the practicing surgeon. With surprising ease difficult to appreciate, an operative instrument or pack may disappear from sight while the mind and hands of the operator are preoccupied
H M, OLNICK, H S, WEENS, J V, ROGERS
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A study of the bioengineered surgical sponge

Technology and Health Care, 2012
The postoperatively retained foreign body (PORFB) can induce complications leading to the need for follow-up surgery to ensure its removal, to treat or prevent the formation of an abscess, and to minimize the risk of death for the patient and liability for the surgeon and hospital.
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EROSION OF RETAINED SURGICAL SPONGES INTO THE INTESTINE

American Journal of Roentgenology, 1966
Retained surgical sponges are identifiable by radiopaque markers, and, when lost, can be expeditiously located by roentgen examination. However, by a rare chain of circumstances, sponges may be left in the peritoneum unwittingly only to make their presence known weeks or years later.
K B, Robinson, E J, Levin
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Gossypiboma—The Problem of the Retained Surgical Sponge

Radiology, 1978
Commonly used surgical sponges and appliances all have standardized, readily recognized opaque markers visible on radiographs. When these markers are identified on postoperative radiographs, they should be assumed to represent retained surgical sponges or appliances.
R G, Williams, D G, Bragg, J A, Nelson
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Radiological Detectability of Surgical Swabs and Sponges

Australasian Radiology, 1982
SUMMARY A surgical swab or sponge containing an “x-ray detectable” marker left in a patient after surgery may go undetected on a post-operative radiograph. The conditions influencing detectability and test procedures to establish minimum values of detectability together with a quantitative measure of detectability are described.
P, Leonard, M C, Schieb
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A retained surgical sponge with interesting sequelae

The American Journal of Medicine, 1963
Abstract A malabsorption syndrome developed in a patient with multiple intestinal fistulas resulting from the presence of a surgical sponge. The mistaken diagnosis of pernicious anemia was made for which the patient was treated for the twelve years prior to death.
H A, WELLS, B H, HYUN, R E, MITCHELL
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Retained surgical sponge: Medicolegal aspects

Legal Medicine, 2018
Retained surgical sponge events continue to occur despite the implementation of preventive surgical count policies, procedures, and adjunct technologies to manual counting. Such intraoperative mistakes can cause chronic nonspecific symptoms during the early postoperative period.
Patrizia Gualniera, Serena Scurria
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An Evaluation of a Numbered Surgical Sponge Product

AORN Journal, 2007
Surgical sponge counting is an essential patient safety measure in the OR in which all members of the surgical team must participate. The RN acting as circulator is responsible for accurately documenting sponge counts during the surgical procedure. A sequentially numbered sponge product was evaluated in a survey of OR personnel to determine ease of use
Michele M, Pelter, Kimberly E, Stephens, Denise, Loranger   +2 more
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Pseudotumour due to surgical sponge: Gossypiboma

Australasian Radiology, 1997
SUMMARYThe plain‐film, ultrasonography and computed tomography findings of retained surgical sponges (gossypibomas) are described in three patients. When a mass with hyperechoic wavy structures and posterior acoustic shadowing is seen on ultrasonography, the history of previous surgery must be questioned.
G, Sahin-Akyar, C, Yağci, S, Aytaç
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