Complications of lost needle after suture of vaginal tear following delivery.
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.
Hösli
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ihoesli@uhbs.ch
Tercanli
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Holzgreve
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D000328:Adult; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D004841:Episiotomy; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D009339:Needles; D011247:Pregnancy; D013537:Sutures; D013997:Time Factors; D014599:Uterus