Cyste per magna abdominalis

Hesp, W.L.; Goris, R.J.

Acta Chirurgica Belgica 83(6): 416-419

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5458
PMID: 6659818
Document Number: 217612
A 79-year old woman, presented with fever and a large abdominal mass. She was operated on because an infected ovarian cyst was suspected. A very large pseudocyst was found, containing a surgical gauze pad, left behind 67 years earlier during a nephrectomy. This is the longest interval, the only infected and the largest pseudocyst reported in the literature till now.

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