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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 96, 339-343, Copyright © 1966 by American Roentgen Ray Society

EROSION OF RETAINED SURGICAL SPONGES INTO THE INTESTINE

KENNETH B. ROBINSON M.D.1 and EMANUEL J. LEVIN M.D.1

1 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

Retained surgical sponges are identifiable by radiopaque markers, and, when lost, can be expeditiously located by roentgen examination. However, by a rare chain of circumstances, sponges may be left in the peritoneum unwittingly only to make their presence known weeks or years later. These gauze pads are easily recognized on roentgenograms before perforation occurs by a radiopaque marker and a mass of soft tissue density. Following perforation of the bowel wall, barium floods the interstices of the sponge and when the sponge becomes intraluminal in location, the bowel wall becomes distended hs the barium impregnated mass.


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