AI Article Synopsis
- - Retained surgical sponges post-surgery can lead to serious clinical issues, complicating diagnosis in patients experiencing complications like pain or infection.
- - A 35-year-old male with an open acetabular fracture developed significant wound issues four days after surgery, leading to the discovery of a 10 cm mass via CT scan.
- - It's critical for healthcare providers to consider retained foreign bodies in their differential diagnosis when patients show symptoms like infection or palpable masses after surgical procedures.
Article Abstract
Retained sponges after a surgical treatment of polytrauma may cause a broad spectrum of clinical symptoms and present a difficult diagnostic problem. We report a case of retained surgical sponge in a 35-year-old man transferred from another hospital, that sustained a open acetabular fracture. The fracture was reduced through a limited ilio-inguinal approach. After 4 days, he presented massive wound dehiscence of the surgical approach. An abdominal CT scan showed, lying adjacent to the outer aspect of the left iliac crest, a mass of 10 cm, identified as probable foreign body. The possibility of this rare complication should be in the differential diagnosis of any postoperative patient who presents with pain, infection, or palpable mass.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4541466 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874325001509010321 | DOI Listing |
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