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(A) Endopath electrosurgery probe plus II (Ethicon); (B) mono-polar electrosurgery suction and irrigation shaft with curved dissector electrode; (C) outer casing of the Endopath electrosurgery probe plus II (Ethicon, Tokyo, Japan) was cut; (D) the broken tip of mono-polar curved dissector electrode resected from the abdominal wall.
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The peritoneal cavity was washed using an Endopath surgery probe (Ethicon, Tokyo, Japan; Figure 1A). It was not a sharp needle, but a 3-cm blunt metallic object, which was identified as the tip of the broken Endopath surgery probe (Ethicon; Figure 1).
Broken tip of the mono-polar surgery probe located in the abdominal wall. (A) Hysterosalpingography after laparoscopically assisted myomectomy; (B) follow-up radiographic image after the cesarean section; and (C) computed tomography image after the cesarean section. A ski-shaped shadow exists in all images (white arrow).
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At that time, a ski-shaped shadow was visualized in the right flank (Figure 2A); however, we could not identify it. A 3-cm ski-shaped shadow was visualized at the right flank (Figure 2B), and the same was visualized using computed tomography (Figure 2C).