A sewing needle in liver: a case report and review of the literature

Cases Journal

Table 1 Summarised data on eleven cases of hepatic sewing needles

Reporter	Age	Sex	Diagnosis of needle	Route to liver	Location	Hepatic Abscess	Treatment method
Abel RM, et al. [1]	11 months	Male	Incidentally	Stomach	Left lobe	Yes	Laparotomy
Crankson SJ [2]	2 years	Male	Incidentally	?	Right lobe	No	No treatment
Saviano M, et al. [3]	65 years	Female	Incidentally	Transcutaneous	Left lobe	No	Laparoscopy
Le Mandat-Schultz A, et al. [4]	11 months	Male	Swallowing history	Gastrointestinal tract?	Right lobe	No	Laparoscopy
Nishimoto Y, et al. [5]	1 year	Male	Incidentally	Transcutaneous	Left lobe	No	Laparotomy
Roca B[6]	85 years	Female	Swallowing history, senile dementia	Gastrointestinal tract?	Left lobe	No	No treatment
Chintamani, et al. [7]	26 years	Male	Incidentally, fever	Duodenum	Right lobe	Yes	Laparotomy
Azili MN, et al. [8]	14 years	Female	Swallowing history, epigastric pain	Stomach	Right lobe	No	Laparotomy
Lanitis S, et al. [9]	35 years	Female	Swallowing history	Duodenum	Left lobe	No	Laparoscopy
Rahalkar MD, et al. [10]	23 years	Female	Swallowing history	Gastrointestinal tract	Left lobe	No	No treatment
Ward A, et al. [11]	20 years	Female	Swallowing history	Duodenum	Left lobe	No	Laparotomy