The above CT scan shows the scissors in Ms Bai's left paracolic gutter, a narrow space in the abdomen running alongside the descending colon. She suffered no complications once they were removed.

The left lateral paracolic gutter is narrow by comparison. It is located to the side of the descending colon. Doctors cannot see the paracolic gutters with medical imaging tests, such as X-rays.

Slide the probe caudad to visualize the left paracolic gutter, which is the space between the descending colon and the lateral abdominal wall.

A woman in Japan had two surgical sponges left in her body. Images show an X-ray (left) and CT scan (middle) of the woman's abdomen; the sponges appear on either side of the abdominal cavity as ...

In the present case, the ovarian dose received after transposition was 74.9 cGy for the right ovary and 59.9 cGy for the left ovary, both below the dose expected to be gonadocidal.