Computed Tomography of Sponges Retained after Laparotomy
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
- Vol. 5 (2) , 187-189
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004728-198104000-00008
Abstract
Sponges retained after laparotomy are a serious diagnostic problem when they cannot be recognized on plain radiographs by radioopaque inserts. In these circumstances, computed tomography yields a highly suggestive whirl-like pattern, as shown by 2 human case reports.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Gossypiboma—The Problem of the Retained Surgical SpongeRadiology, 1978