Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.
2007 Aug;40(8):590-592.
A Forgotten Surgical Gauze after Surgery that Mimicked Aspergilloma: A case report
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- 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine. chest@schbc.ac.kr
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- A 55-year-old male presented with intermittent cough and blood-tinged sputum. 35 years earlier in the Army Armed Forces, he had undergone lung surgery of the right upper lobe because of tuberculosis. Chest CT showed a mass-like lesion with an internal air-meniscus sign in the right lung. The mass was 5x7 cm in the right upper lobe and it was a well marginated lesion. The resected mass contained a foreign body, that is, a retained surgical gauge. Herein we report on a rare case of retained gauze after surgery that mimicked aspergilloma.
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