Woman's Painful Breast Caused By Gauze Left Inside Body From Decade-Old Surgery

A woman who underwent surgery a decade ago discovered that a gauze pad from the operation was left inside her body.

The woman went to doctors after experiencing pain in one of her breasts, Thaiger reported, citing a statement made by Thai celebrity lawyer Sittra Biabungkerd.

She underwent surgery, and it was found that a gauze pad had been left inside her body by a doctor from a breast augmentation operation back in 2012.

Sittra did not disclose other details regarding the discovered gauze, such as its size.

The woman has since reached out to Sittra, who urged the beauty clinic that allegedly left behind the gauze inside the woman to take responsibility for the incident.

Surgical gauze left inside patients during surgeries is called textiloma or gossypiboma, as per a study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Though the incidence may not be uncommon, the medical fabric could lead to an infection and other complications.

"[They] can cause a variety of symptoms, including fever, palpable mass and pain," the study stated. "Retained surgical gauze occurrences are not as rare as they are widely considered to be, and clinicians should be aware of that. In reality, retained gauze can be extremely difficult to diagnose, especially if a patient presents after a very long asymptomatic period."

In a similar story, a glass tumbler was found inside a woman's bladder years after she self-inserted it for "erotic purposes."

The woman, identified only as a 45-year-old Tunisia resident, went to the doctor after exhibiting lower urinary tract infection symptoms.

While signs showed that the woman's body was fighting an infection, she neither had any blood in her urine nor did she suffer urinary incontinence.

An X-ray later detected a "radio-opaque shadow with rectangular form" inside her bladder that had "the form of a glass."

The "giant stone," which measured 8 centimeters (3.15 inches) by 7 centimeters (2.16 inches) by 8 centimeters, was the result of a glass tumbler having "calcified" in the woman's bladder.

She allegedly inserted the drinking glass into herself four years ago for "erotic purposes" but ended up inserting it into the urethra, the tube that allows urine to pass out of a person's body.

The woman later underwent surgery, and the stone was removed. When doctors cracked open the stone, the glass inside was still intact.

She was discharged the next day, and her follow-up was "uneventful."