title: Intrathoracic gossypiboma presenting 52 years later as a chest mass.
abstract: We describe the rare case of a 71-year-old man with a chest mass that was found to be an intrathoracic gossypiboma left 52 years earlier during an emergency lung bilobectomy. This mass was complicated by extension across the chest wall. There are no reports in the literature of a patient carrying a thoracic gossypiboma for such a long period of time, let alone with extension across the chest wall.
authors.affiliation: Thoracic Surgery Department, Hospital Padre Hurtado, Santiago, Chile mfparra@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Parra
authors.affiliation: Clínica Alemana-Universidad del Desarrollo School of Medicine, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oppliger
authors.affiliation: Thoracic Surgery Department, Hospital Padre Hurtado, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: Raúl
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Berríos
authors.affiliation: Imaging Department, Hospital Padre Hurtado, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schiappacasse
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D015503:Surgical Sponges; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: Foreign bodies; surgical sponges; thoracic wall