SURGICAL GLOVE
-- LEFT IN CHEST CAVITY. SYDNEY, August IS. An authentic case of a rubber surgical glove having been left in a patient's. lung after an operation is related in the current issue of the “Medical Journal of Australia,” by Dr. Darling, of the Coast Hospital. The glove was removed as soon as it was discovered, but the patient died. He was a man, aged 25, and went to the Coast Hospital complaining of cough and progressiye weakness following an operation ■which he had undergone at another hospital a year previously. . Radiogical examination demonstrated tuberculous- mottling not only through the whole of the right lung field, but also to a lesser degree in the upper half of the left field. During an exploration of the lung cavity a, surgical glove was discovered lying between the chest wall and the. lung on the right side. It was extracted, and the patient improved progressively for some days, but thereafter rapidly went down, and died within a month of his admission.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1927, Page 10
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