Intrathoracic gossypiboma presenting 52 years later as a chest mass
Journal
Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
ISSN
0218-4923
1816-5370
Date Issued
2015
Author(s)
Marcelo Parra
Federico Oppliger
Raúl Berríos
Type
Resource Types::text::journal::journal article
Abstract
<jats:p> We describe the rare case of a 71-year-old man with a chest mass that was found to be an intrathoracic gossypiboma left 52 years earlier during an emergency lung bilobectomy. This mass was complicated by extension across the chest wall. There are no reports in the literature of a patient carrying a thoracic gossypiboma for such a long period of time, let alone with extension across the chest wall. </jats:p>