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Gauzoma mimicking siliconoma after breast augmentation surgery
Manuel Sarrabayrouse1, Horacio F Mayer, Hugo D Loustau
1Department of Plastic Surgery, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, Gascon 450, Buenos Aires, 1181, Argentina. manuel.sarrabayrouse@hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Abstract:
Gauzoma is a rare iatrogenic mass caused by the retention of gauze fibers during surgery. This intraoperative complication represents a diagnostic problem for radiologists besides being a medicolegal problem for surgeons. We present a patient in whom a retained surgical sponge after breast augmentation surgery mimicked a siliconoma and discuss imaging appearance and differential diagnosis.
