title: Post thyroidectomy gossypiboma.
abstract: Gossypiboma is an unfrequent surgical complication wich consists in the presence of a mass of textile origin surrounded by a foreign body reaction. The authors present a clinical case of a left paratracheal gossypiboma, diagnosed during the follow-up of a patient submitted to a total thyroidectomy two years before for a papilary carcinoma.
authors.forename: Gonçalo S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Paupério
authors.forename: Paulo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Matos
authors.forename: Carlos Robalo
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Cordeiro
authors.forename: Manuel J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Antunes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015745:Granuloma, Foreign-Body / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D015503:Surgical Sponges; D013965:Thyroidectomy; D014132:Trachea