Intrauterine click here contraceptive devices may rarely erode into the urinary bladder, usually shortly after insertion.This case report describes the presentation and management of a copper-bearing intrauterine device which had eroded into the bladder.The patient presented with dysuria, dyspareunia and groin pain.
The device had been inserted 10 years previously following a termination of pregnancy.A bladder stone had formed on the arm of the T-shaped device.The calculus was successfully lasered transurethrally and the intrauterine device was removed transvaginally.
A urinary catheter was left here on free drainage for four weeks and a follow-up cystogram showed no leak.Most complications related to intrauterine devices occur within days or weeks of insertion but in this case the complications presented 10 years later.