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Lost needle: a dilemma in robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery
M A Omar1, A Davidson2, O M A Karim2
1Centre for Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. surgeonmao@yahoo.com.
Journal of Robotic Surgery
|September 18, 2016
Abstract:
A case is presented where a needle was lost in the assistant's port during a robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy. This complication generated a unique dilemma: whether or not to disengage the robot and search for the needle or to continue with the operation and look for the needle at the end of the operation.
