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This Woman Had Surgical Sponges Left In Her Abdomen For At Least 6 Years
sciencealert.com
Usually, when you're having trouble with bloating and stomach discomfort, you'd think it's probably something you ate.
But for one 42-year-old woman in Japan these symptoms turned out to be the result of a surgical error - she'd been carrying two gauzy surgical sponges inside her body for years.
According to a case report published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the patient had experienced abdominal bloating for some three years before showing up at a primary care clinic for investigation.
When the doctors pressed on her lower abdomen, they quickly discovered two masses on either side of the pelvis. The lumps weren't painful to the touch, but the team sent the patient off to do a CT scan.
"Computed tomography of the abdomen showed well-defined pelvic masses that contained hyperdense, stringy structures," the team writes in the report.
The only thing left was to open her up to see what those masses were.
Surgery revealed the stringy things were actually two gauze sponges ensconced in thick, fibrous shells that had partially attached themselves to the woman's colon and stomach tissue...
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