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Management of a broken needle at the time of laparoscopic burch
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Tampa, USA. clynch@com1.med.usf.edu
JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
|September 15, 2000
Abstract:
Loss of surgical instrumentation in endoscopic procedures poses problems not faced in traditional surgery. We describe the breakage and subsequent recovery of a 2-mm segment of needle from an Autosuture Endostitch device (U.S. Surgical) during a laparoscopic Burch urethropexy.

