Severe endometritis caused by genital mycoplasmas after Caesarean section.

Infrequently, post-Caesarean endometritis can progress to severe conditions. A case of post-Caesarean endometritis caused by Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum is reported in a young patient. In therapy-resistant endometritis unusual causative organisms should be considered and special microbiological investigations are recommended.

Sudden suffocation by surgical sponge retained after a 23-year-old thoracic surgery.

A 70-year-old male patient with a 23-year-old history of right lower lung lobectomy for primary pulmonary adenocarcinoma (T1 N0 M0) presented with recurrent bronchopneumonia and purulent sputum. Pleural callus, lung abscess, bronchopleural fistula, and stitch granulomas were confirmed by chest x-ray, computed tomography scan, and bronchoscopy in the background of his complaints. An attempt to remove the bronchial purulent discharge and tissue sampling was made by using a flexible bronchoscope.