Robotic-assisted laparoscopic excision of gossypiboma simulating bladder wall mass after 35 years of appendectomy.
Gossypiboma or textiloma are terms commonly used to describe a retained sponge in the body that is composed of sponge invested within a layer of foreign body reaction in the form of an abscess or an aseptic fibrotic reaction. These cases are rarely reported despite an incidence of 1:1,000-1,500 of abdominal or pelvic surgery. We report a patient who presented with an incidental supravesical mass discovered upon work up for frequency and suprapubic pain. He had appendectomy 35 years ago. The mass was excised by robotic-assisted laparoscopic technique. The pathologic evaluation came as gossypiboma.
Department of Urology, Taibah University, Madina, Saudi Arabia.
Emad Sabri
ES
Rajih
Department of Urology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Waleed Khalid
WK
Al-Khudair
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Turky
T
Al-Hussain
Department of Urology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed Faihan
MF
Al-Otaibi
Appendectomy; Foreign bodies/complications; robotics; urinary bladder