BACKGROUND: The presence of the strange body inside of peritoneal cavity can cause pain, disconfort, indisposition, fever, nausea, intestinal obstruction, fistula to digestive system or elimination through rectum. AIM: To report a case of patient with the textiloma in the right side of peritoneal cavity, with diagnosis done after 40 years of a colecistectomy. CASE REPORT: Female, 74 years old, abdominal pain , intestinal rhythm alteration and partial occlusion episode, colonic X-ray and abdominal tomography with bad defined solid mass, with calcification in right side of peritoneal cavity. She was submitted to laparotomy and a mass was taken off with pathologic confirmation of textiloma. CONCLUSION: The presence of a strange body in peritoneal cavity, can simulated tumours and the majority of the cases is confírmed during laparotomy. The singularity of this case is the fact of 40 years asymptomatic.
Colonic Neoplasms; Foreing bodies