Complications of lost needle after suture of vaginal tear following delivery

We present a case of a lost broken needle during repair of a vaginal tear f ollowing delivery. The woman was not informed at that lime. Only twenty yea rs later a pelvic X-ray visualised the fragment by chance. From that day on she complained about lower abdominal chronic pain and insisted on a hyster ectomy. The case considers moving of foreign bodies and as a cause of chron ic pain and relates to open information even 20 years later.