A New Zealand mom-to-be who went in for a cesarean in 2020 ended up with a dinner plate-size surgical tool called an ... or AWR — a device used to draw back the edges of a wound — was left ...

A surgical tool the size of a dinner plate was found inside a woman’s abdomen 18 months after her baby was delivered by cesarean section, according to a report by New Zealand’s Health and ...

Dinner Plate-Sized Device Accidentally Left Inside Woman ... The tool—which is used to draw back the edges of a wound during surgery—was not detected by X-rays the mother received after ...

A woman suffered crippling pain after a medical device the size of a dinner plate was left inside her abdomen for 18 months after she gave birth via cesarean section, an official report has said.