A Forgotten Surgical Gauze after Surgery that Mimicked Aspergilloma: A case report.
- Author:
Jae Yun OH
1
;
Hwa Kyun SHIN
;
Yong Soon WON
;
Jae Wook LEE
;
Jin Sung YANG
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine. chest@schbc.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Foreign body;
Lung surgery
- MeSH:
Arm;
Cough;
Foreign Bodies;
Humans;
Lung;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Sputum;
Tomography, X-Ray Computed;
Tuberculosis
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2007;40(8):590-592
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A 55-year-old male presented with intermittent cough and blood-tinged sputum. 35 years earlier in the Army Armed Forces, he had undergone lung surgery of the right upper lobe because of tuberculosis. Chest CT showed a mass-like lesion with an internal air-meniscus sign in the right lung. The mass was 5x7 cm in the right upper lobe and it was a well marginated lesion. The resected mass contained a foreign body, that is, a retained surgical gauge. Herein we report on a rare case of retained gauze after surgery that mimicked aspergilloma.
