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- Title
Nadir bir mekanik bağırsak tıkanıklığı nedeni: gossibioma olgu sunumu.
- Authors
Karakaş, Dursun Özgür; Yılmaz, İbrahim; Sücüllü, İlker; Yücel, Ergün; Balta, Ahmet Ziya; Özdemir, Yavuz
- Abstract
Gossypiboma is uncommon and used to describe a retained surgical swab in the body after an operation. Although, intestinal obstruction occurs frequently after postoperative adhesions, gossyipiboma can be seen as a rare cause. In this article, we report an 80 year-old woman who was operated for mechanical bowel obstruction depending on a migrated surgical sponge into ileum lumen which retained 20 years ago.
- Subjects
SURGICAL sponges; ILEUM; TISSUE adhesions
- Publication
Gulhane Medical Journal, 2012, Vol 54, Issue 4, p326
- ISSN
1302-0471
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.5455/gulhane.30581