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MORALES, Raúl A et al. Oclusión intestinal mecánica por DIU intrabdominal: Presentación de un caso. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2004, vol.43, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

The case of a 43-year-old patient who received attention at "Celia Sánchez Manduley" Clinical and Surgical Hospital, in Manzanillo, for presenting a rare complication of the IUD is presented. The patient was operated on due to a mechanical intestinal obstruction resulting from the passage of a segment of the small intestine through the orifice of a Zipper's ring located in the abdominal cavity. The postoperative evolution was satisfactory

Palavras-chave : INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION [complications]; CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES, FEMALE.