Pseudotumour due to surgical sponge: Gossypiboma

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 288-291

  Şahin Akyar, Gülden ^a,b   Yaǧci, Cemil ^a   Aytaç, Suat ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Foreign bodies; Ultrasonography (US)

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COTTON; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; SPONGE;

EID: 0030742234     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.1997.tb00675.x     Document Type: Article

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