Cotton gauzes are commonly used during surgical procedures. Retained surgical gauzes can result in tumors called textiloma.
A 63-year-old female patient presented with chronic low back pain that had lasted about 20 years. She had surgery in the lumbar spine for discus herniation 19 years ago, as well as surgery for an intramuscular lipoma in the right lumbosacral paravertebral muscles 16 years ago. Clinically, she had pain in the …