Retroperitoneal Gossypiboma.
- Author:
Ki Ho KIM
1
;
Hyung Il LEE
;
Hyug Jun CHANG
;
Jung Ran KIM
;
Hyung Gyu SOHN
;
Kyung Seop LEE
Author Information
1. Departments of Urology, and 1Anatomic Pathology, College of Medicine, Dongguk University, Gyeongju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Gossypiboma;
Retroperitoneum
- MeSH:
Abscess;
Foreign Bodies;
Hematoma;
Humans;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Surgical Sponges;
Ureter
- From:Korean Journal of Urology
2002;43(3):243-245
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Gossypiboma is the term used to describe a mass within the body composed of a non-absorbable surgical material involving a cotton matrix. Surgical sponges with radiopaque markers are easily recognized on plain radiographs, but foreign bodies retained in the body without such markers present a diagnostic problem. Gossypiboma should be differentiated from a hematoma, abscess, cyst or tumor. Here we report a case of Gossypiboma in a 60-year-old male patient who had undergone a ureterolithotomy for a right ureteral stone 30 years earlier.
