Publikation

Intra-abdominal foreign body as unexpected discovery mimicking suspicious malignancy

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 23.06.2021

PubMed
DOI

Zitation
Kastiunig T, Sortino R, Vines L, Benigno L. Intra-abdominal foreign body as unexpected discovery mimicking suspicious malignancy. J Surg Case Rep 2021; 2021:rjab248.
Art
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Englisch)
Zeitschrift
J Surg Case Rep 2021; 2021
Veröffentlichungsdatum
23.06.2021
ISSN (Druck)
2042-8812
Seiten
rjab248
Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

Although rare, postoperatively retained foreign bodies in the abdominal cavity still represent a serious issue for the surgical team as for the patients. Its clinical manifestation is often unspecific and the cases are therefore only irregularly registered. There are several known factors that increase the risk of retention of a foreign body, for example emergency surgeries, unplanned changes in procedure or a high body mass index. In this article, we would like to report the case of a male patient with a foreign body in the right lower quadrant after open appendectomy mimicking a tumor.