Left behind: Unintentionally retained surgically placed foreign bodies and how to reduce their incidence - Pictorial review

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Whang, Gilbert ^a   Mogel, Greg T ^a   Tsai, Jerome ^a   Palmer, Suzanne L ^a  

^a USC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications of surgery; Foreign bodies; Gossypiboma; Iatrogenic injury; Retained surgical sponges

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGIST; RETAINED FOREIGN BODY; RETAINED INSTRUMENT; RISK; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL SPONGE; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74049148050     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.7153     Document Type: Article

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