Intrapulmonary foreign body: sponge retained for 43 years.
We present a patient who had a left thoracotomy 43 years previously. Since that surgery he experienced intermittent hemoptysis, and a recent thoracotomy revealed an intrapulmonary foreign body (retained sponge) in the left lower lobe. The liability potential of this case is discussed.
Taylor
F H
FH
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mercy Hospital, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Zollinger
R W
RW
Edgerton
T A
TA
Harr
C D
CD
Shenoy
V B
VB
D000368:Aged; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D015503:Surgical Sponges; D013997:Time Factors