[Pleural textiloma discovered after treatment of a persistant arterial channel].
BACKGROUND
Post-operative foreign bodies are rare and localized in the abdomen for the majority of cases. 80% of these foreign bodies were textiloma.


OBJECTIVE
Report a new case of post operative body localized in the pleukral cavity.


METHODS
A 6 years old boy, previously treated on age 11 months for persistant arterial channel, was admitted with the diagnosis of persistant left pneumopathy since 6 months. Thorax x ray showed a non systematized operety in middle fueld of cefts lung. Ultrasonography demonstrated a plural hyperchonic. Tumor with a posserior shadow one evaluated to scan aloy its longitudinal axis secondary by condensation of lung tissue, this among evolved in textiloma. CT scan showed a condensation of lung tissue hyperdense tumor in its center. Pleuval membrane because thick the foreign body was removed significantly and a pleural decortication was performed post operative course was uneventful


CONCLUSIONS
pleural textiloma, is rare but it still severe complications with its life listening wish an medico legal consequences.
Hammami
Olfa
O
Service de Pneumo-Phtisiologie B Hôpital A. Mami.
Ammar
Jamel
J
Hamzaoui
Agnés
A
D002648:Child; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D015503:Surgical Sponges; D014339:Truncus Arteriosus, Persistent / Q000601:surgery