MR features of a 24-year-old gossypiboma. A case report.
Retained surgical sponges can cause serious diagnostic problems. We report on our experience with a piece of gauze, encapsulated for 24 years, that mimicked a soft-tissue neoplasm, and we describe its MR features.
Roumen
R M
RM
Department of Surgery, St. Joseph Hospital, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
Weerdenburg
H P
HP
D002081:Buttocks / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000175:diagnosis; D003368:Gossypium; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D015503:Surgical Sponges; D013997:Time Factors