title: Intraabdominal gossypiboma mimicking gastrointestinal stromal tumor: a case report.
abstract: Gossypiboma is used to describe a retained surgical swab in the body after an operation. Intraabdominal surgical sponge is an uncommon surgical error. Gossypiboma may cause serious morbidity and may lead to mortality. Gossypibomas should be included in the differential diagnosis of soft-tissue masses detected in patients with a history of a prior operation. In this case we present a 67-year-old female who had a laparotomy for acute cholecistecytitis 5 years previously and was discovered to have a retained surgical swab.
authors.affiliation: Keçiören Training and Research Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Ankara, Turkey. hakan_bulus6@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Hakan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Buluş
authors.forename: Gülçin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Şımşek
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Coşkun
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Koyuncu
mesh_terms: D034841:Abdominal Cavity / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D046152:Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007579:Jejunal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D007813:Laparotomy; D019300:Medical Errors; D015503:Surgical Sponges; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed