PMID: 18709823Aug 20, 2008Paper

Bladder lithiasis secondary to intrauterine device migration. Case report

Archivos españoles de urología
Tomás Lázaro Rodríguez CollarJosé Antonio García Monzón

Abstract

To report one clinical case of bladder lithiasis secondary to the migration of an intrauterine device, its symptoms, diagnostic tests employed and treatment. 30-year-old female patient who presented lower urinary tract irritative symptoms. One year before she underwent insertion of an intrauterine device (copper T) after endometrial curettage for pregnancy interruption. She received treatment for infection cystitis over two years, with various antibiotic cycles. The persistence of symptoms led her to the urology clinics, and a 5 x 3 cm intravesical lithiasis with a copper T inside was detected by ultrasound and pelvic anterior-posterior x-ray Suprapubic cystolithotomy was performed with a good outcome and disappearance of the symptoms. The migration of an intrauterine device to the bladder is an unfrequent cause of bladder lithiasis secondary to foreign body. Nevertheless, we must consider this possibility in front of chronic lower urinary tract irritative symptoms in every female using this birth control method.

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