By identifying the uterus, an intrauterine device can be easily identified and its location confirmed if appropriately placed. The IUD appears as a thin hyperechoic structure that should be aligned with the endometrial stripe if appropriately located both in transverse and sagittal views.
this is a scan using the curvilinear transducer on abdominal preset in the sagittal plane here we have the bladder and deep to the bladder is the uterus as we scan through the uterus there's an obvious hyperechoic structure here right down the uterine midline representing the iud that belongs to the patient appropriately placed in the uterine fundus you
