[Fracture of a surgical needle in suture management of episiotomy]
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1Abteilung für pränatale Diagnostik und Therapie, Universitätsklinik für Frauenheilkunde Wien, Osterreich.
Gynakologisch-Geburtshilfliche Rundschau
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
The complication of a break of the surgical needle during the suture of an episiotomy and the disappearance of the fragment in the perineal tissue has not been dealt with in the available literature. From our own material, a frequency of 0.17/1000 (n = 22,374) can be calculated. For the authors, the best method of coping with this complication is the removal of the needle fragment under a portable digital imaging system with two needleholders according to Bozemann.