intrathoracic gossypiboma, a retained surgical sponge in the thoracic cavity, is a rare but serious complication of thoracic surgeries. a 70-year-old man presented with an eight-month history of cough. he had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery eight years ago. the posteroanterior chest x-ray revealed a well-marginated homogeneous opacity at the left hemithorax with striped appearance in t...

Gossypiboma or textiloma is used to describe a retained surgical swab in the body after an operation that often requires another surgery. This increases morbidity and mortality of the patient, cost of treatment, and medicolegal problems. We are reporting case of a 30-year-old woman who was referred from periphery with acute pain in abdomen. The patient had a surgical history of caesarian sectio...

Background: The term gossypiboma denotes a mass of cotton that is accidentally retained in the body postoperatively. Case Report: Our case describes a 40-year-old female patient with a giant abdominal mass that occurred 9 years after a cesarean section delivery. Computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging showed a 20-cm mass. A laparoscopic retrieval was performed with the placement...

We present a case of a 65-year-old man with recurrent hemoptysis and weight loss for 6 months. Thirty-two years earlier, lobectomy of the right lower lobe had been performed for abcessing pneumonia. Due to recurrent pulmonary infections after lobectomy the patient had to retire at the age of 46. A diagnostic procedure to explain the hemoptysis was performed. A computed tomogram revealed a suspi...

We report a case of spleen abscess cased by foreign body (gossypiboma) after 40 years. After physical examination, laboratory, ultrasonography and CT findings with diagnosis of acute abdomen, 73 years old woman had undergone laparatomy. Operation revealed intraabdominal spleen abscess. Capsulotomy and drainage of the collection was performed before splenectomy. Histological examination showed f...

INTRODUCTION Gossypiboma is rare and mostly asymptomatic in chronic cases. It can be confused with other soft tissue masses. CASE PRESENTATION Our patient was an 87-year-old Japanese man with a history of surgery for a lumbar lesion causing lumbar canal stenosis 19 years earlier. Computed tomography showed a soft tissue mass with osteolysis and periosteal thickening of the vertebral lamina. O...

We report a 22-year-old man with a solid mass in the right proximal leg, which was furned out to be a gossypiboma. MR imaging revealed a well-defined mass lesion that showed intermediate signal intensity at T1-weighted imaging (T1WI) and slightly high signal intensity at T2-weighted imaging (T2WI). Wavy, low-signal-intensity stripes were visible within the fluid-filled central cavity. At surgic...