A hasüregben hagyott sebészi tamponok okozta szövődmények emberben és kutyában

SUMMARY In the present literature review, the author summarised the non-neoplastic and neoplastic postoperative complications, symptoms of the abdominal retained surgical sponges in human patients, and dogs. Abdominal retained surgical sponges and cotton fibres induce macrophage and giant cell proliferation, angiofibroblast tissue growing, which will become inactive, demarcating scar tissue, or will infiltrate, destroy the wall of the adjacent organs with septic complication. This literature review present that the abdominal retained surgical sponge can induce malignant mesenchymal tumour, sarcoma in human patients, dogs and cats.