Volume: 7 Issue: 1
Year: 2019, Page: 97-98,
Introduction: Gossypiboma or retained surgical sponge is rare but serious complication of surgery. It is a surgeon’s nightmare with medicolegalcomplications.It amounts to medical negligence of the surgical team.Diagnosis is often delayed owing to nonspecific clinical symptoms and inconclusive imaging features. We report a case of a 20 year old woman who previously underwent caesarean section and presented to our hospital with features of intestinal obstruction due to Gossypiboma.
Keywords: Gossypiboma, ultrasound, intestinal obstruction
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