An unusual cause of chronic lumbar back pain: Retained surgical gauze discovered after 40 years

Pain Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1777-1779

  Rajković, Zoran ^a,b   Altarac, Silvio ^a   Papeš, Dino ^a  

^a Zabok General Hospital   (Croatia)

^b NONE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Chronic Pain; Gossypiboma; Lumbar Back; Retained Gauze; Textilloma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; CONSTIPATION; FEVER; FOREIGN BODY; GAUZE DRESSING; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PAIN; PALPATION; SEPSIS; SYMPTOM; TEXTILOMA;

EID: 78650158043     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00969.x     Document Type: Article

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