Abstract:Background
Gossypiboma or textiloma is an accidental retention of a textile in the operated area of the body. Abdominal surgery is the most responsible for these complication. The purpose of our study was to describe aspects observed in abdominal gossypibomas on CT-scan.
Methods
A retrospective study was conducted over 10 years (from January 1st, 2009 to December 31st, 2018) at the Teaching University Hospital of Lomé, including all the surgically confirmed cases of the abdominal gossypibomas who had abdominal… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.