Lee Po-chang (李博彰), a physician at Nantou Hospital’s Department of Surgery, said that a 40-year-old woman surnamed Chen (陳) accidentally broke a sewing pin, and the head somehow became embedded in her skin, without her knowing it. The patient was roused from sleep by a prickling pain under her right armpit, and after searching around, she found a sewing needle with its head broken off, Lee quoted her as saying. “The sewing needle was very thin and proved difficult to locate via palpation or sonic scans, and as doctors in the emergency section were unable tso find a visible wound, we resorted to X-ray imagery,” Lee said. The X-ray showed that the head of the needle was lodged in her right-rear chest wall and did not damage any organs, as it had not penetrated deeply, Lee said. The hospital was able to remove the needle after locating it with the X-ray, Lee said.

Source: Taipei Times March 05, 2018 15:56 UTC