[Retroperitoneal foreign body mimicking pararenal tumor].
We report the case of a 48 year-old woman presently with a pararenal tumor, with a history of pyelotomy in 1978 for the extraction of a renal pelvic stones. Results of surgery showed a foreign body. The clinical and diagnostic aspects of retained surgical gauze have been discussed and the need for radio-opaque markers in them have been emphasized.
Touiti
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Service d'urologie et de transplantation, hôpital Edouard Herriot, 5, place d'Arsonval, 69430 Lyon, France.
Paparel
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P
Deligne
E
E
Dawahra
M
M
Colombel
M
M
Martin
X
X
Gelet
A
A
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015503:Surgical Sponges