Missing IUD: Recovery of an unusual coil.

The article discusses the medical case of a 59-year-old Afro-Caribbean woman in England whose IUD, which was inserted 20 years prior to admission, was missing. The woman's ultrasound scan showed a normal sized uterus with a bright linear echo suggestive of an IUD at the fundus of the uterus. She underwent a hysterescopy and a large loop excision of the transformation zone.