Surgically removed intrathoracic needle; a report of three cases.

Accidental chest penetration of glass foreign bodies in a 53 year old lady—The challenges with video assisted thoracoscopic extraction

“…The foreign bodies were needles, metal pieces, chopsticks, bamboo stick, Kirschner wires and pieces of glass. In the articles that described the time from injury to diagnosis, there were some cases in which a foreign body was found early, as in this case, and the patient underwent surgery promptly and there were other cases in which the presence of the foreign body was found after more than 40 years [3] . In each of those cases with a long time between the injury and the surgical treatment, the patient reported no symptoms and did not have a pneumothorax for intrathoracic adhesion.…”

“…The foreign body may reach its site by a transbronchus, transthoracic, or transdiaphragm route. I conducted an Internet search for “the intrathoracic foreign body, foreign body in lung” for the years 1993–2015 with a Japanese medical central magazine and found 15 cases of intrathoracic foreign body without the patient's awareness in Japan ( Table 1 ) [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] . These cases typically involved adults.…”

Thoracoscopic retrieval of an intrapulmonary sewing needle: A case report

“…They may enter the body via four routes: transcutaneous, transbronchial, transesophageal, or hematogenous. 7 The clinical history often gives clues about the etiology. In our case, the entranceway of the needle was challenging to determine.…”

“…Intrapulmonary sewing needles are relatively rare in clinical practice. They may enter the body via four routes: transcutaneous, transbronchial, transesophageal, or hematogenous 7 . The clinical history often gives clues about the etiology.…”

Successful Surgical Removal of an Intrapulmonary Aberrant Needle Under Fluoroscopic Guidance: Report of a Case

“…Recent reports have described cases of successful thoracoscopic surgery to remove an aberrant needle which caused pneumothorax. 7,8 We performed open thoracotomy for our patient because thoracoscopic surgery had not been introduced at our hospital at the time. However, this minimally invasive technique should be tried first to remove an aberrant needle without any intrathoracic adhesions.…”