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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2023

A sewing needle in the liver: a case report and literature review.

Osamu Shimooki, Naoko Ito, Masanori Hakozaki, Yukihiro Minakawa, Chihiro Tono, Tadashi Abe

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Osamu ShimookiDepartment of General Medicine, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, 19-1 Uchimaru, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8505, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1781-097X
Naoko ItoDepartment of Surgery, Iwate prefectural Kuji Hospital, 10-1 Asahicho, Kuji, Iwate, 028-0014, Japan.
Masanori HakozakiDepartment of Surgery, Iwate prefectural Kuji Hospital, 10-1 Asahicho, Kuji, Iwate, 028-0014, Japan.
Yukihiro MinakawaDepartment of Surgery, Iwate prefectural Kuji Hospital, 10-1 Asahicho, Kuji, Iwate, 028-0014, Japan.
Chihiro TonoDepartment of Surgery, Iwate prefectural Kuji Hospital, 10-1 Asahicho, Kuji, Iwate, 028-0014, Japan.
Tadashi AbeDepartment of Surgery, Iwate prefectural Kuji Hospital, 10-1 Asahicho, Kuji, Iwate, 028-0014, Japan.

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Abstract

Intrahepatic foreign bodies are rarely reported. Although rare, a few reports of swallowed foreign bodies straying into the liver from the gastrointestinal tract have been published. Herein, we report a case in which an asymptomatic intrahepatic needle was removed laparoscopically. An 81-year-old woman presented to our hospital with an abnormal shadow on her abdominal X-ray image. Abdominal computed tomography displayed a needle-like shadow obliquely lying in the lateral segment of the left lobe of the liver. No subjective symptoms were reported; however, the patient underwent laparoscopic extraction. The postoperative course was good, and the patient was discharged without any complications. We also present a literature review of 27 patients with intrahepatic foreign bodies, a sewing needle.

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