title: Textiloma: a case of foreign body mimicking a spinal mass.
abstract: Items such as cotton or gauze pads can be mistakenly left behind during operations. Such foreign materials (called textilomas or gossypibomas) cause foreign body reaction in the surrounding tissue. The complications caused by these foreign bodies are well known, but cases are rarely published because of medico-legal implications. Some textilomas cause infection or abscess formation in the early stage, whereas others remain clinically silent for many years. Here, we describe a case of textiloma in which the patient presented with low-back pain 4 years after lumbar discectomy. Imaging revealed an abscess-like mass in the lumbar epidural space.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgery Department, Adana Numune Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ali Ihsan
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Okten
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Adam
authors.forename: Yurdal
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gezercan
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D032561:Cotton Fiber; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017586:Diskectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D020802:Epidural Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis; D004824:Epidural Space / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged