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

INTRODUCTION: 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. CASE PRESENTATION: An old woman was incidentally found to have a sewing needle in her liver on abdominal X-ray. The sewing needle was kept...

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Autores principales: Feng, Quan Zhou, Wang, Jie, Sun, Hong
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6520
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description INTRODUCTION: 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. CASE PRESENTATION: 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. CONCLUSION: 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.
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spelling pubmed-27401852009-10-14 A sewing needle in liver: a case report and review of the literature Feng, Quan Zhou Wang, Jie Sun, Hong Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: 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. CASE PRESENTATION: 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. CONCLUSION: 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. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2740185/ /pubmed/19829818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6520 Text en © 2009 Feng et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short A sewing needle in liver: a case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6520
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