A 52-Year-Old Woman with a Palpable Abdominal Mass
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine,
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2016),
1 February 2016
,
Page 45-46
https://doi.org/10.22037/aaem.v4i1.217
Abstract
A 52-year-old woman presented with a history of diabetes mellitus under medical treatment and a surgical history of a cesarean section 20 years ago. The patient was referred to our emergency department because of a 2-week hypermenorrhea and unspecific abdominal pain without nausea and vomiting, fever, or other symptoms. She did not complain of weight loss.- abdomen
- foreign body
- gossypiboma
- surgical sponges
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