Letter: Migration of broken sewing needle from left arm to heart.

[Intracardiac sewing needle in a women with autoaggressive behavior].

Heart lesions produced by the introduction of sewing needles into the thorax by people with autoagressive behavior patterns are very rare.1-4 Such patients usually suffer psychiatric disorders and present at hospital manifesting that they have introduced a foreign object into their chest, or with chest pain, dyspnea and sometimes pneumothorax. We recently treated a female drug addict with psych...

Laparoscopic Removal of a Broken Sewing Needle in a Patient with Irritative Bladder Symptoms

A foreign body near the bladder is rare. Although foreign bodies in the bladder can be easily found and removed by endoscopic transurethral removal, extravesical foreign bodies may require the use of an open or laparoscopic procedure. Here, we report a case of a patient complaining of frequency and urgency in whom an extravesical sewing needle was successfully removed by a laparoscopic approach...

A VERY RARE CASE OF FOREIGN BODY IN THE CORONARY ARTERY

A 56 year old man was admitted to our center for further evaluation of typical chest pain of ten months' duration. Selective coronary angiography was done and showed a sewing needle-like foreign body which was lying in very close proximity to the anatomic location of the right coronary artery. At operation two pieces of sewing needles were removed, one from the coronary sinus and the other...

Modeling of impact damage of sewing machine needle on woven fabric by finite element method

Retrieval of a Broken Sewing Needle from the Sacrum Aided by a Permanent Magnet: A Case Report and Literature Review

Penetrating sacral injuries are very rare, but foreign bodies that penetrate the sacrum often cause pain, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, and neurological symptoms. Careful preoperative medical and imaging examinations, determining the position of the foreign body, and surgical exploration are essential in the management of such cases. We present the case of a woman who visited our emergency depar...