More than 20 years ago, a forgetful doctor left a piece of gauze in a woman's intestine during an operation. In July 2022, the Journal of Cure Medicine published a case study detailing her surgical error.

That is a piece of lost gauze. More than 20 years ago, an forgetful doctor left a piece of gauze in a woman's intestine during an operation. In July 2022, the Journal of Cure Medicine published a case study detailing her surgical errors. Regarding this horrifying medical malpractice, the author wrote: "For 20 years, a considerable foreign body has existed in the abdominal cavity of the patient, but it is completely asymptomatic. "

The 65-year-old patient has a rare gastric mucosal adenocarcinoma. In 1999, she underwent a series of surgeries to remove all cancer cells and undergo some rehabilitation treatments. It is reported that she underwent gastrectomy and omentectomy before chemotherapy.

Although she was finally announced to have a cure for the cancer, it seems that the surgeon accidentally dropped something during the operation. However, in the past 20 years after the operation, the woman did not feel anything wrong. It was not until 20 years later that two days later, she suddenly began to suffer from severe abdominal pain, fever, night sweats and swelling of the right lower limbs. She also suffered from inexplicable anorexia, causing the woman to lose 17 pounds, almost 10% of her weight. The patient was frightened by the sudden symptoms and rushed to see a doctor. ultrasonic scan showed a large piece of gauze on her abdomen. doctors believe that this sticky thing should have been left in her colon during the operation more than 20 years ago.

Fortunately, the gauze was not in a difficult place, so the surgeon performed a minor operation on her and took out the gauze (pictured above). According to the pictures, the gauze looks very hard and brown, like a package of ancient mummies. Interestingly, this gauze has appeared in various scan results for patient appointments in over the past 20 years, however, she did not know because the doctor had never analyzed these reports. Not only that, the patient showed no symptoms for most of the 20 years.

The author of the case study did not disclose where the patient came from or where she received treatment