A FDA article alerts healthcare personnel about the potential dangers posed by fragments of medical devices that are left in a patient's body. FDA receives more than a thousand reports each year of device fragments breaking off during invasive procedures or from devices already implanted in the body. The fragments may have been left in the body because they could not be retrieved or because the risk of removing them was greater than the risk of leaving them in place. For more information
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