title: An intra-abdominal foreign body presenting as a colonic tumor: review of literature and report of a case.
abstract: A case is reported in which a patient seemed to show the clinical picture of a colonic tumor, but was found to have a retained laparotomy pad from an exploratory operation which had been performed nine years earlier. This case of an intra-abdominal foreign body demonstrated many interesting and instructive clinical, radiologic, and surgical features with approaches to the diagnosis and management of this condition.
mesh_terms: D001458:Bandages; D002432:Cecum; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography