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- Title
Complications of lost needle after suture of vaginal tear following delivery.
- Authors
Hösli, I.; Tercanli, S.; Holzgreve, W.; Hösli, I
- Abstract
We present a case of a lost broken needle during repair of a vaginal tear following delivery. The woman was not informed at that time. Only twenty years later a pelvic X-ray visualised the fragment by chance. From that day on she complained about lower abdominal chronic pain and insisted on a hysterectomy. The case considers moving of foreign bodies and as a cause of chronic pain and relates to open information even 20 years later.
- Subjects
SURGICAL errors; DELIVERY (Obstetrics); SUTURES; OBSTETRICS; OPERATIVE surgery; CHRONIC pain; UTERINE surgery; MEDICAL errors; EPISIOTOMY; FOREIGN bodies; HYPODERMIC needles; SURGICAL complications; TIME; UTERUS; FOREIGN body migration; MEDICAL equipment reliability
- Publication
Archives of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2000, Vol 264, Issue 3, p159
- ISSN
0932-0067
- Publication type
journal article