Case Reports in Surgery (Jan 2014)

An Extremely Rare Complication of Varicose Vein Surgery: Retained Foreign Body

  • Orhan Fındık,
  • Ufuk Aydın,
  • Çağrı Düzyol,
  • Özgür Barış,
  • Cevdet Uğur Koçoğulları

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/584580
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2014

Abstract

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Foreign body is among complications of surgery. But as a complication of varicose vein surgery it was reported extremely rarely and, to our knowledge, there is only one paper in the literature. A case with retained sponge which was detected five months after varicose vein surgery was presented.