Gossypiboma: Tales of lost sponges and lessons learned

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 770-775

  McIntyre, Lisa K ^a   Jurkovich, Gregory J ^a   Gunn, Martin L D ^a   Maier, Ronald V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GOSSYPIBOMA; HUMAN; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETAINED INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL SPONGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HEMOSTASIS; MEDICAL ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL SPONGES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955638749     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.152     Document Type: Article

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