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 the abdominal preset this time in the transverse plane here in the near field where in the supracubic region we see the bladder and deep to the bladder we see the uterus again in the uterus we see this hyperechoic structure in the middle that represents the iud appropriately placed in the uterine fundus
