Retained surgical sponges: What the practicing clinician should know

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 395, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1001-1007

  Sakorafas, George H ^a   Sampanis, Dimitrios ^a   Lappas, Christos ^a   Papantoni, Eva ^a   Christodoulou, Spyros ^a   Mastoraki, Aikaterini ^a   Safioleas, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Complications; Fistula; Foreign bodies; Instruments; Morbidity; Retained; Sponges; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERROR; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL SPONGE;

ABDOMEN; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOREIGN BODIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERRORS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL SPONGES;

EID: 79952786574     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-010-0684-4     Document Type: Article

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