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A 52-Year-Old Woman with a Palpable Abdominal Mass
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018 A 52-year-old woman presented with a history of diabetes mellitus under medical treatment and a surgical history of a cesarean section 20 years ago. The patient was referred to our emergency department because of a 2-week hypermenorrhea and unspecific ...
Yuh-Jeng Yang +3 more
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SPONTANEOUS RECTAL DISCHARGE OF A RETAINED SURGICAL PAD
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2021 Int roduction. Postoperative foreign body retention is a well-known and rare complication of all types of surgical interventions. The clinical presentation of a patient with an abdominal retained foreign body is generally as an infectious syndrome ...
Hasan BESIM
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The Report of a Surgical Residual Langas Inside the Renal Pelvis 16 Years after Surgery “Case Report” [PDF]
Journal of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, 2022 Background & Objective: Gossypiboma is the meaning of a residual foreign body such as gas in the abdomen following surgical operation, which is a rare complication of surgery.
Mojtaba Ashrafi +3 more
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Effect of a surgical sponge counting stand on counting discrepancies, time efficiency, and operating room staff satisfaction: A quality improvement study [PDF]
Nursing and Midwifery StudiesBackground: Retained surgical items (RSIs), particularly surgical sponges, represent a significant and preventable error in surgical practice, leading to severe patient complications and legal repercussions for healthcare providers.
Naeimeh Eftekhari +2 more
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Reducing the risk of unintended retained surgical sponges: A quality improvement project
, 2020 •Unintended retained surgical sponges are detrimental never-events.•Application of education and technology augments the surgical count process.•Use of combined evidence-based strategies prevent unintended retained surgical sponges .
Foronda, Cynthia L +2 more
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Patient Safety in Surgery, 2023 Background One of the most common surgical emergencies, intestinal obstruction is rarely the result of an inadvertently retained foreign object (also known as a gossypiboma), which may not present symptoms for a lifetime. It also carries additional legal
Samir Ismail Bashir +5 more
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Gossypiboma—Retained Surgical Sponge
Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, 2007 Intra-abdominal retained surgical sponge is an uncommon surgical error. Herein, we report a 92-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency room for acute urinary retention. She had a history of vaginal hysterectomy for uterine prolapse 18 years previously, performed at our hospital.
Sun, Hung-Shun +4 more
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Intraluminal migration of surgical sponge: Gossypiboma
Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2010 Surgical mop retained in the abdominal cavity following surgery is a serious but avoidable complication. The condition may manifest either as an exudative inflammatory reaction with formation of abscess, or aseptically with a fibrotic reaction developing into a mass. Intraluminal migration is relatively rare.
Patil Kundan +5 more
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Transabdominal Migration of Retained Surgical Sponge [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2012 Retained surgical sponge (RSS) is a rare surgical complication. The RSSs are mostly located intra-abdominally but they can also be left in the thorax, spine, extremity, cranium, and breast. RSS is often difficult to diagnose because of the nonspecific clinical symptoms and radiologic findings. Clinically, RSS may present as an exudative reaction in the
Ali Guner +3 more
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Multifunctional Hemostatic PVA/Chitosan Sponges Loaded with Hydroxyapatite and Ciprofloxacin
, 2022 The present study describes the development of multifunctional hemostatic sponges to control bleeding. Chitosan (Ch) and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) were selected as the basic polymeric matrix [Ch/PVA] for sponges.
Karaly, Ali H. +7 more
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