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A Forgotten Surgical Gauze atter Surgery that Mimicked Aspergilloma - A case report -  

Oh, Jae-Yun (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine)
Won, Yong-Soon (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine)
Lee, Jae-Wook (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine)
Yang, Jin-Sung (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine)
Shin, Hwa-Kyun (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine)
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Journal of Chest Surgery / v.40, no.8, 2007 , pp. 590-592 More about this Journal
Abstract
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 $5{\times}7\;cm$ 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.
Keywords
Foreign body; Lung surgery;
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