• Journal of patient safety · Dec 2015

    Case Reports

    Retained Foreign Body: "Needle in a Haystack".

    • Lauren O'Brien, Kathleen M Eyster, and Keith A Hansen.
    • From the *Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, KU School of Medicine-Wichita, Wichita, Kansas; †Departments of Basic Biomedical Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, and ‡Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, South Dakota.
    • J Patient Saf. 2015 Dec 1; 11 (4): 228-9.

    AbstractRetained foreign bodies remain an area of potential patient harm. This case describes a retained needle from distant surgery discovered at the time of the needle count after myomectomy.

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