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Transmural migration of surgical sponge evacuated by defecation: mimicking an intraperitoneal gossypiboma
Jae Woong Choi1, Chang Hee Lee, Kyeong Ah Kim
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Guro Hospital of Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
Korean Journal of Radiology
|September 14, 2006
Abstract:
The spontaneous defecation of the surgical retained sponge is very rare. Here, we report a case of migrating surgical sponge that was retained in the colon and it was evacuated by defecation.
