Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Foreign body granuloma in the anterior abdominal wall mimicking an acute appendicular lump and induced by a translocated copper-T intrauterine contraceptive device: a case report | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL Sr CASE REPORTS Case report Foreign body granuloma in the anterior abdominal wall mimicking an acute appendicular lump and induced by a translocated copper-T intrauterine contraceptive device a case report Maulana Mohammed Ansari1 Syed Hasan Harris1 Shahla Haleem2 Rehan Fareed1 and Mohammed Feroz Khan1 Open Access Addresses Department of Surgery Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital . Aligarh . India and 2Department of Anaesthesiology Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital . Aligarh . India Email MMA - mma_amu@ SHH - hasanharris@ SH - shahlahaleem@ RF - MFK - firoz_alg99@ Corresponding author Published 3 April 2009 Received 17 April 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 7007 doi 1752-1947-3-7007 Accepted 22 January 2009 This article is available from http jmedicalcasereports article view 3 4 7007 2009 Ansari et al licensee Cases Network Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Intrauterine contraceptive devices may at times perforate and migrate to adjacent organs. Such uterine perforation usually passes unnoticed with development of potentially serious complications. Case presentation A 25-year-old woman of North Indian origin presented with an acute tender lump in the right iliac fossa. The lump was initially thought to be an appendicular lump and treated conservatively. Resolution of the lump was incomplete. On exploratory laparotomy a hard suspicious mass was found in the anterior abdominal wall of the right iliac fossa. Wide excision and bisection of the mass revealed a copper-T embedded inside. Examination of the uterus did not show any evidence of perforation. The next .