Surgical clip??

LosingSally
on 7/11/12 12:54 am
I have had an interesting experience.
I had a TT and hernia repair over 4 years ago. For the past year or so, I've had a small lump fairly deep under the skin to the left of my navel ( if I still had one).
This was explained as " scar tissue" by 2-3 pcp.
IN the past couple weeks, the skin over the area became reddened, and I went to a surgeon, asking if I had a hernia. After a CT, I was told it seemed to be fluid-filled pocket, maybe a cyst.
I had a needle aspiration showing what appeared to be pus. So, in office, the pocket was opened and drained, swabbed and packed.
After the second day, during a recheck on it, what appeared to be a surgical clip appeared on the q-tip swabs during the cleaning.
Very tiny, and very supprising. Anyone ever had a clip or staple migrate to the surface???
I have " spit" every kind of suture ever used during surgery, including those considered least reactive, and those meant to be permanent, and the ones meant to disolve after a few weeks.
But the surgeon says this is a titanium clip. All I can say is HHHHHHMMMMMM??????
Anyone else ever had anything like this?
LosingSally
on 7/22/12 1:16 pm
Replying to my own post. I had a second titanium clip surface in the same place, and still cleaning and packing, in order to heal from the inside out.
Apparently these titanium clips are used to clip off bleeders during surgery as a faster method than suturing.
Seems my body dislikes titatium as much as other suture materials.
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