Guðrún Margrét Viðarsdóttir¹

Ásgeir Böðvarsson²

Helgi Kjartan Sigurðsson¹ (1967-2023)

Páll Helgi Möller^1,3

¹Department of General Surgery, Landspitali National University Hospital, ²Department of Medicine, The Healthcare Institution of North Iceland, ³Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland.

Correspondence: Guðrún Margrét Viðarsdóttir, gudrunmv@landspitali.is

 

Key words: intrauterine device, migration, laparoscopy, perforation, sigmoid colon.

Intrauterine devices (IUDs) are a safe and common form of contraception. Uterine rupture and migration of the IUD is a rare complication of insertion but can be serious and cause damage to adjacent organs. We present a case report of a 43 year old woman with chronic abdominal pain who was diagnosed with an IUD in the wall of the sigmoid colon. That IUD had been inserted in the uterine cavity 22 years earlier.