Cyste per magna abdominalis.
A 79-year old woman, presented with fever and a large abdominal mass. She was operated on because an infected ovarian cyst was suspected. A very large pseudocyst was found, containing a surgical gauze pad, left behind 67 years earlier during a nephrectomy. This is the longest interval, the only infected and the largest pseudocyst reported in the literature till now.
D000005:Abdomen; D000368:Aged; D001458:Bandages; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010048:Ovarian Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis