Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Complications of midurethral transoburator slings include injuries directly associated with trocar placement or subsequent erosion of the mesh that is placed. While tissue reaction to implanted mesh material occurs, rarely does it produce clinical symptoms. We report a case of granuloma formation after a transobturator tape midurethral sling presenting as a groin mass. CASE: A 59-year-old para 2 postmenopausal woman underwent uncomplicated placement of a transobturator tape midurethral sling concomitantly with prolapse repair. Two years later, she presented to her primary care physician complaining of a 1-cm groin mass. After failure of empiric treatment with antibiotics for a presumed infectious etiology, surgical resection of the mass was performed, which revealed granuloma formation surrounding the polypropylene mesh. CONCLUSION: Granuloma formation can occur years after placement of a midurethral transobturator sling. Whereas a rare complication, it is important for surgeons to consider this diagnosis during the workup of a groin mass.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".