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Acupuncture complication--a case report
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA.
Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association
|August 27, 2005
Abstract:
A migrating, broken acupuncture needle inserted 28 years prior, impinged the L5 nerve root causing severe chronic pain which was relieved by surgical removal. Worldwide literature revealed an unexpected and surprising number of serious complications from acupuncture treatment.