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1Department of Neurosurgery, Duzce University, School of Medicine, Duzce, Turkey. merihis@yahoo.com
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|July 7, 2007
Abstract:
Gossypiboma (textiloma, gauzoma, muslinoma) is a rare iatrogenic mass caused by the retention of gauze fibres during surgery. This intraoperative complication has rarely been reported for an intraspinal or paraspinal location. Here, we present a patient in whom a retained surgical sponge between the paraspinal muscles was encountered 3 years after lumbar surgery, and discuss the radiological and pathological appearance and differential diagnosis.
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