Background: Gossypiboma is a term for a surgical complications resulting from foreign materials, such as a surgical sponge, accidentally left inside a patient's body. Methods: We report a rare case of woman who presented with multiple gossypibomas resulting in intra-abdominal abscess and intestinal fistula after caesarean section. Results: A 35-year-old Chinese woman was referred to our hospita...

conclusions in patients with abdominal or pelvic masses and a history of previous abdominal surgery, the possibility of gossypiboma should be kept in mind. case presentation we report two patients (the first patient was 50 years old, with a history of an appendectomy three years ago in another city; the second patient was 52 years old, with a history of a cesarean section 25 years ago in anothe...

We describe a case report of gossypiboma (retained surgical swab), a rare occurrence secondary to a previous open surgical procedure. The incidence has been estimated at between 1 in 100 to 5 000 surgical procedures.

DESCRIPTION Gossypiboma is the term for a surgical swab accidentally left inside a patient’s body. It is derived from the Latin word ‘gossypium’ meaning cotton and the Swahili ‘boma’ meaning place of concealment. Gossypiboma has an incidence of 1:1500 for intra-abdominal operations. Common presentations of gossypiboma are abdominal distension, ileus, tenesmus, pain, palpable mass, vomiting, wei...

INTRODUCTION The word Gossypiboma has been used for a retained surgical sponge/swab and is derived from gossypium(latin:cotton) and boma(Swahili-place of concealment). Other synonyms for this entity are textiloma, retained textile foreign body(RTFB)"/muslinoma. It is rare in muskulo-skeletal surgery. CASE REPORT An eighteen year old boy was operated upon for failed plating of right femur. He ...