Missed Intra Uterine Device: A Rare Indication for Appendicectomy Review of Literature

Abstract

Appendicitis is a common indication for appendicectomy. Other indications are mucocele, faecoliths, calculi and tumors. Intra Uterine Device (IUD) perforation is a rare complication of IUD and it may perforate and lodge in the appendix leading to IUD appendicitis which is a rare indication for appendicectomy. We review the literature and report a case in which appendicectomy was done for IUD appendicitis due to missed IUD.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source (including a link to the formal publication), provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.