Journal of Clinical Gynecology and Obstetrics, ISSN 1927-1271 print, 1927-128X online, Open Access
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Case Report

Volume 12, Number 3, December 2023, pages 93-97

The C-Arm Technique to Locate a Lost Needle During Robotic Gynecology Surgery

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1. (a) Needle found in pelvis. (b) Hemostat used to triangulate needle. (c) A 17-mm, 13-mm, and 5-mm needle in a standard 8-mm trocar. (d) A 13-mm needle in a metallic laparoscopic trocar.
Figure 2.
Figure 2. A flow diagram of proposed protocol of surgical needle lost during minimally invasive surgery. Each step assumes failure to find the needle during the prior step.