A woman has sued a Redding hospital and doctor, claiming medical personnel left a sponge inside her body following surgery. The 41-year-old woman went around with a sponge lodged in her cervix for ...

Nunez de Avelar had surgery in March 2023 after imaging showed a mass near her left ovary, the lawsuit said. The operation revealed that it was a laparotomy sponge — an absorbent pad that ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A mother filed a lawsuit Thursday against a Las Vegas hospital, claiming a doctor left a sponge in her body when she delivered her son 18 years ago, according to documents the ...

The second surgery, however, revealed that the item he had presumed was the tumor was “a sponge he had left in her brain,” the suit, obtained by the National Enquirer, reportedly alleged.