title: Imaging of abdominal and pelvic surgical and postprocedural foreign bodies.
abstract: Every form of medical and surgical treatment, even the most trivial one, carries with it some chance of complications. This risk is usually small, and the benefit of the treatment should clearly outweigh the risk. Treatment-related complications may occur, however, presenting either soon after the intervention or remote from it. In this review, the focus is on imaging findings of surgical materials used in abdominal surgery, and of a wide array of implanted abdominal devices. The pertinent complications of these devices and of retained surgical objects are highlighted and illustrated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 2 Derech Sheba, Ramat-Gan 52621, Israel; Department of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304, USA. Electronic address: gayer@post.tau.ac.il.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gayer
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792-3252, USA.
authors.forename: Meghan G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Lubner
authors.affiliation: Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 510 South Kingshighway, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Sanjeev
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhalla
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792-3252, USA.
authors.forename: Perry J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Pickhardt
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D010388:Pelvis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D019736:Prostheses and Implants / Q000009:adverse effects; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal / Q000379:methods; D013523:Surgical Equipment / Q000009:adverse effects; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
keywords: Computed tomography; Iatrogenic complication; Iatrogenic injury; Implanted devices; Postprocedural complications; Surgical foreign bodies