It was reported that, during a breast reconstruction procedure, a lap sponge string "came apart" from the lap sponge as it was being "pulled from the cavity" by the surgeon.The lap sponge string fell back into the surgical site.The surgeon retrieved the lap sponge string by hand with no further incident reported.According to the reporting facility, there was no adverse impact to the patient.No sample evaluation is available at this time.Due to the reported need for medical intervention to retrieve the lap sponge string from the surgical site, this medwatch is being filed.If additional relevant information becomes available a supplemental medwatch will be filed.
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