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Re: Gyn: Lost IUD From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirezt@coqui.net) Tue Mar 27 03:09:41 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Lost IUD" Previous message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: Gyn: Lost IUD" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Gyn: Lost IUD" Next in thread: Atkinson, Samuel M: "Re: Lost IUD" I agree with plain x-rays.. Ef >At Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Garry E. Siegel, M.D. wrote: > >25 YO P1001 with a Mirena of around one year's duration, came in for >removal. No string seen, and on exploring the uterus with an IUD hook, >well, no IUD found. > >Ultrasound did NOT find her IUD, so it is lost. > >I have recommended H-scope/lapscope to find it, but she has asked about >having a CT first. Actually, I hadn't thought of that, and it seems >that a plain X-ray may be even the better first choice. > >My real questions is: Is there any role for imaging? My instinct says we >simply need to go to the OR, as she couldn't have expelled it and not >known it, I wouldn't think. That said, if it is up under her diaphagm. >. . > >Garry > >-- >Garry E. Siegel, M.D. >Private Practice >Roswell, GA > -- “ The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Lost IUD" Previous message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: Gyn: Lost IUD" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Gyn: Lost IUD" Next in thread: Atkinson, Samuel M: "Re: Lost IUD"

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