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Left Behind: Unintentionally Retained Surgically Placed Foreign Bodies and How to Reduce Their Incidence—Self-Assessment Module

¹ All authors: Department of Radiology, USC University Hospital, 1500 San Pablo St., 2nd Floor Imaging, Los Angeles, CA 90033.

The educational objectives of this self-assessment module are for the reader to exercise, self-assess, and improve his or her skills in diagnostic radiology with respect to the imaging of unintentionally retained surgically placed foreign bodies and to develop a standardized approach to the request for intraoperative imaging to rule out a foreign body.

Keywords: complications of surgery • foreign bodies • gossypiboma • iatrogenic injury • retained surgical sponges

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