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Woman’s IUD ‘eroded’ through her uterus and punctured her bladder
A 47-year-old woman who complained to her doctor of blood in her urine turned out to have an unusual diagnosis: Her copper intrauterine device (IUD), which she’d received a decade earlier, had perforated her bladder and a bladder stone had formed on it, according to a new report. Doctors believe the IUD had gradually “eroded”