Sponge-induced granuloma ("gauzoma") as a complication of posterior lumbar surgery - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 209-211

  Turgut, Mehmet ^a,b   Akyüz, Orhan ^a   Özsunar, Yelda ^a   Kacar, Füruzan ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Cumhuriyet Mahallesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Intraoperative complication; Magnetic resonance imaging; Posterior lumbar surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ISCHIALGIA; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE SCINTISCANNING; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL SPONGE;

DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL SPONGES;

EID: 18244388471     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.209     Document Type: Article

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