Diagnostic challenges in patients with tumors: Case 1. Gossypiboma (foreign body) manifesting 30 years after laparotomy

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3700-3701

  Rajput, Ashwani ^a   Loud, Peter A ^a   Gibbs, John F ^a   Kraybill, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GOSSYPIBOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBROSIS; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SARCOMA; SURGICAL SPONGE; TIME;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA; SURGICAL SPONGES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0141973776     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.02.092     Document Type: Article

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