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Herbert De Praetere1, Caroline Vanden Eycken, Bart Meuris
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|January 18, 2014
Abstract:
Iatrogenic vascular problems during posterior lumbar interbody fusion are a rare entity. Migration of a broken scalpel towards the heart has, to our knowledge, never been reported. We present the successful surgical retrieval of a broken scalpel from the heart after posterior lumbar interbody fusion without the use of a cardiopulmonary bypass.
