Intrathoracic gossypiboma presenting 52 years later as a chest mass

Marcelo Parra; Federico Oppliger; Raúl Berríos; Giancarlo Schiappacasse

doi:10.1177/0218492314557181

Intrathoracic gossypiboma presenting 52 years later as a chest mass

Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2015 Jun;23(5):596-8. doi: 10.1177/0218492314557181. Epub 2014 Oct 27.

Authors

Marcelo Parra¹, Federico Oppliger², Raúl Berríos³, Giancarlo Schiappacasse⁴

Affiliations

¹ Thoracic Surgery Department, Hospital Padre Hurtado, Santiago, Chile [email protected].
² Clínica Alemana-Universidad del Desarrollo School of Medicine, Santiago, Chile.
³ Thoracic Surgery Department, Hospital Padre Hurtado, Santiago, Chile.
⁴ Imaging Department, Hospital Padre Hurtado, Santiago, Chile.

PMID: 25348160
DOI: 10.1177/0218492314557181

Abstract

We describe the rare case of a 71-year-old man with a chest mass that was found to be an intrathoracic gossypiboma left 52 years earlier during an emergency lung bilobectomy. This mass was complicated by extension across the chest wall. There are no reports in the literature of a patient carrying a thoracic gossypiboma for such a long period of time, let alone with extension across the chest wall.

Keywords: Foreign bodies; surgical sponges; thoracic wall.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Diagnosis, Differential
Foreign Bodies / diagnosis*
Foreign Bodies / etiology
Foreign Bodies / surgery
Humans
Male
Pneumonectomy*
Postoperative Complications* / diagnosis
Postoperative Complications* / surgery
Radiography, Thoracic
Surgical Sponges*
Thoracic Wall / diagnostic imaging*
Thoracic Wall / pathology
Thoracic Wall / surgery
Tomography, X-Ray Computed