Identification of a Retained Surgical Sponge Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

1 April 1986

journal article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurosurgery

Vol. 18 (4) , 496-498
https://doi.org/10.1227/00006123-198604000-00023

Abstract

We report a patient who had a spinal abscess due to a retained surgical sponge. Through the use of magnetic resonance imaging, the sponge was identified. Postoperative foreign body complications are discussed.

Keywords

ABSCESS
POSTOPERATIVE
SPINAL
IDENTIFICATION
SPONGE USING
RETAINED SURGICAL
SURGICAL SPONGE

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