Migration of an Intrauterine Device into the Mediastinum

Abstract

Qyun Zhehau and Diclyn Zichire*

We present the case of an otherwise healthy 23-year-old woman whose hormonal Intra Uterine Device (IUD) migrated from her uterus into her abdomen and then her mediastinum through a previously undiagnosed, asymptomatic paraesophageal hernia over a ten-month period. This is the first reported case of a translocated IUD found above the diaphragm.