TY - JOUR T1 - Laparoscopic management of gossypiboma AU - Çetin, Orkun AU - Çim, Numan AU - Alkış, İsmet AU - Kolusarı, Ali AU - Gül, Abdülaziz PY - 2015 DA - July JF - EASTERN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE PB - Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1301-0883 SP - 114 EP - 116 VL - 20 IS - 2 LA - en AB - Gossypiboma is a mass lesion due to a retained surgical sponge surrounded by foreign body reaction. We report the laparoscopic management of gossypiboma after cesarean section for placenta previa. A 29 year- old women presented with a history of emergency cesarean section for placenta previa, performed seven days ago. Abdominal computerized tomography scan showed a heterogeneous and low density mass, with peripheral calcifications. The patient was submitted to laparoscopic surgery. An aseptic plastic material was used to wrap for laparoscopic removal of gossypiboma. Minimal invasive surgery for removal of gossypiboma is successful within a few weeks after the original operation as demonstrated in our case. However, the dissection technic is difficult and depends on an experienced laparoscopic surgeon. KW - Gossypiboma KW - cesarean section KW - laparoscopic management CR - Kaiser CW, Friedman S, Spurling KP, Slowick T, Kaiser HA. The retained surgical sponge. Ann Surg 1996; 224: 79-84. CR - Hu SC, Pang HL, Hsieh HF. Gossypiboma (retained surgical sponge): Report of a case. Gastroenterol J Taiwan 2005; 22: 329-334. CR - Malik A, Jagmohan P. Gossypiboma. US and CT appearance. Indian J Radiol Imaging 2002; 12: 503- 504. CR - Manzella A, Filho PB, Albuquerque E, Farias F, Kaercher J. Imaging of gossypibomas: Pictorial review. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2009; 193: 94-101. CR - Greenberg CC, Regenbogen SE, Lipsitz SR, Diaz- Flores R, Gawande AA. The frequency and significance of discrepancies in the surgical count. Ann Surg 2008; 248: 337-341. CR - Wan W, Le T, Riskin L, Macario A. Improving safety in the operating room: A systematic literature review of retained surgical sponges. Anaesthesiol 2009; 22: 207-214. Curr Opin UR - http://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ejm/issue//72808 L1 - http://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/62351 ER -