Gossypiboma and Surgeon- Current Medicolegal Aspect – A Review

Gossypiboma or textiloma is referred to as a surgical gauze or towel inadvertently retained inside the body following surgery. It is an infrequent but avoidable surgical complication, which must be kept in mind in any postoperative patient who presents with pain, infection, or palpable mass. Gossypi...

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Published inIndian journal of surgery Vol. 74; no. 4; pp. 318 - 322
Main Authors Biswas, Rabi Sankar, Ganguly, Suvro, Saha, Makhan Lal, Saha, Subhasis, Mukherjee, Subhabrata, Ayaz, Asif
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India Springer-Verlag 01.08.2012
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Cardiac Surgery
Health aspects
Legal medicine
Medical errors
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Negligence
Neurosurgery
Pediatric Surgery
Physicians
Plastic Surgery
Review
Review Article
Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Medical negligence
Gossypiboma
Medicolegal aspect
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Summary:Gossypiboma or textiloma is referred to as a surgical gauze or towel inadvertently retained inside the body following surgery. It is an infrequent but avoidable surgical complication, which must be kept in mind in any postoperative patient who presents with pain, infection, or palpable mass. Gossypiboma, in the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur , proves that the surgeon is negligent. Moreover, it has medicolegal consequences including mental agony, humiliation, huge monetary compensation and imprisonment on the part of the surgeon and increased morbidity, mortality and financial loss on the part of the patient. Here we report two cases of gossypiboma and review its current medicolegal aspect in relation to the surgeon.
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ISSN:0972-2068
0973-9793
DOI:10.1007/s12262-012-0446-3