According to the reporter, on a laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal inguinal hernia repair, after the insertion to the patient during mesh deployment and placement, there appeared to be a knot in the thread.
When the surgeon went to pull the thread out of the mesh to position it inside the patient, the thread kept gathering and pulling the mesh.
There was a knot which the surgeon had to cut to remove the thread and deploy the mesh.
The thread then came out in 2 separate pieces.
Extra time of about 15 minutes was added to the procedure due to the issue.
There was no patient injury.
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