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Foreign body in the gastrointestinal tract: intraluminal migration of laparotomy sponge
1Department of General Surgery, Ochsner Clinic and Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, La. 70121.
Southern Medical Journal
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
We have reported a case of complete transluminal migration of a retained laparotomy sponge that caused repeated partial small bowel obstruction. Diagnosis was made when roentgenograms showed multiple positions of the laparotomy marker. The sponge was surgically removed. This is the 69th reported case of complete transluminal migration and distal movement of a laparotomy sponge.