title: A sewing needle in liver: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Hepatic foreign bodies are quite rare. A sewing needle as a hepatic foreign body in an old woman is very rare and the managements have been varied.
  
  
  METHODS
  An old woman was incidentally found to have a sewing needle in her liver on abdominal X-ray. The sewing needle was kept stable in her liver after two years of follow-up. Eleven cases of sewing needle in the liver were reviewed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sewing needle as a foreign body in the liver is rare. In general, the sewing needle should be removed through laparotomy or laparoscopy, but a stable and uncomplicated sewing needle in the liver need not be removed.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Division of Nanlou, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Fuxing Road 28, Beijing, 100853, China. fqz301@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Quan Zhou
authors.initials: QZ
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun