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SUBMITTER: Limbachia D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6135203 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Limbachia Dipak D Gandhi Preeti P
Gynecology and minimally invasive therapy 20170307 4
We present a rare and interesting case, of a retrieval of a broken surgical knife blade, from the retroperitoneal space, through laparoscopic approach by a gynecology endoscopist. A 40-year-oId man underwent open lumbar discectomy surgery, when the surgical knife blade inadvertently broke, and was retained in the disc space. The broken blade could not be removed during the initial surgery. A second attempt was made to retrieve it; however, it migrated further anteriorly into the retroperitoneal ...[more]