title: [Bladder lithiasis secondary to intrauterine device migration. Case report].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report one clinical case of bladder lithiasis secondary to the migration of an intrauterine device, its symptoms, diagnostic tests employed and treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors: Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Dr. Carlos J. Finlay, La Habana, Cuba. bhfinlay@infomed.sld.cu
authors: Tomás Lázaro
authors: TL
authors: Rodríguez Collar
authors: Yamel
authors: Y
authors: Gil del Valle
authors: Basily
authors: B
authors: Valdés Estévez
authors: Víctor Osvaldo
authors: VO
authors: Barquín Carmona
authors: José Antonio
authors: JA
authors: García Monzón
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007434:Intrauterine Devices / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001744:Urinary Bladder Calculi / Q000209:etiology*