Retained Fetal Bones: Rare cause of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

Abstract

Intrauterine retention of fetal bones is a rare complication of unsafe abortion. Patients may present with infertility, chronic pelvic pain, menorrhagia and vaginal discharge. Here, we discuss a management of young female patient with uterine bleeding after miscarriage. Other causes of abnormal uterine bleeding such as infection, polyp, fibroid, malignancy were excluded. Retained intrauterine fetal bones were found as a sole cause of her complaint. Diagnosis was made with pelvic ultrasound and pelvic radiography. Dilatation and curettage was performed to remove the fetal bones with a good subsequent outcome. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.ICON-Suppl.1719 How to cite this:Hameed F, Shuja S. Retained Fetal Bones: Rare cause of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding. Pak J Med Sci. Special Supplement ICON 2020. 2020;36(1):S91-S93. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.ICON-Suppl.1719 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.