Muhammad Naeem, Munir Ahmad, Ambreen Samad, Ihtisham-ul Haq.
GOSSYPIBOMA: A medical negligence.
Pak J Surg Jan ;33(1):83-6.

Objective: To study the variety of clinical presentations of gossypiboma. Study Design: Retrospective descriptive study Setting and Duration: Surgical and Obs & Gynae department, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar from January 1st 2013 to June 30th 2016. Materials & Methods: Aft er formal approval from the ethical committee records of all patients with age range from 14 years and above of either sex admitted to surgical and Obs & Gynae Department were investigated and cases of gossypiboma were included in the study. Case records were reviewed and information regarding various previous surgical procedures and their presentations collected and tabulated. The results were reported in frequency and percentages. Data was analyzed with the help of SPSS for windows version 20. Results: A total number of 34 patients were managed during study period in which 11(26.6 %) were male and 23(73.4 %) were female. Thirteen (38.2%) patients were presented with wound infection and 8 (23.5%), 8( 23.5%), 5(14.7%) were presented with intestinal obstruction, abdominal mass and enterocutaneous fistula respectively. Conclusion: Gossypiboma still seems to be a problem which is under reported in our setup and should be kept in mind in differential diagnosis of post-operative symptomatic patients.

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