A Staten Island, N.Y., woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Staten Island University Hospital and two doctors for a piece of gauze allegedly left inside her abdomen during a 2000 surgery. According to the lawsuit, the gauze caused in infection in Margaret Palombo’s belly, requiring another surgery to clean up the infection. Palombo also claims that she did not discover that the gauze had been left in her abdomen until she reviewed her medical records in 2008. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.