[Intra-abdominal foreign bodies following laparotomy interventions: report of a case]

The authors report their own observation of a case of post-laparotomic endoabdominal foreign body, which for a long period had remained asymptomatic. Starting from the clinical case, they effect a short study of such iatrogenic pathology, and state the diagnostic and therapeutic criteria thereabout. They subsequently dissertate on the possible preventing means.