[Persisting pain after open articulosynovectomy--gossypiboma].
We report about a 44-year-old woman who presented at our Orthopaedic Department suffering from persisting pain and a tumor of the right knee after open articulosynovectomy. MRI did not clarify the entity at all. The X-ray examination could identify an inlying compress after a synovectomy in 1999. The intra-articular foreign body could be removed by open revision surgery.
Goetz
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J
Orthopädie, Universität Regensburg, Bad Abbach. j.goetz@asklepios.com
Handel
M
M
Beckmann
J
J
Anders
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S
Grifka
J
J
Luering
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D000328:Adult; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D015745:Granuloma, Foreign-Body / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D019300:Medical Errors; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D015503:Surgical Sponges; D000074402:Synovectomy; D014463:Ultrasonography