Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Türkiye Klinikleri Akciğer Arşivi, cilt.24, sa.1, ss.15-18, 2025 (Hakemli Dergi)
Sewing needles in the chest wall, which are rarely seen in clinical practice, can lead to life-threatening complications. A 34-year-old male patient presented with back pain and suspicion of foreign body (FB). His anamnesis revealed that he had sewn his shirt with a sewing needle 2 days ago and had left the sewing needle on the edge of the couch and slept there. Physical examination revealed pain and tenderness in the lateral left scapula. A foreign body was detected in radiological imaging methods performed in the emergency department. The patient was taken into surgery in the prone position under deep sedation and the sewing needle was removed from the chest wall. The patient was discharged without any problems. Given the serious complications sewing needles can cause in the places they can reach, they need to be detected and removed early.