In this article, we present an unusual case of a girl who had a mass present in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen and imaging analysis showed that to be a sewing needle. Patient was admitted electively and taken to the operation theater for removal of a foreign body under general anesthesia. The needle was extracted with transumbilical endoscopic surgery (TUES) without any evidence of intra-abdominal organ injury and with a good long-term cosmetic outcome. This case highlights the subtleties of TUES in the management of intra-abdominal foreign bodies in children including rare causes such as non-ingested foreign bodies.
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