Difficult removal of a deep implant using a traditional removal method

I read with great interest the correspondence from Dr Kandiyil1 and Dr Shepherd2 about implant removal in the July Journal and also Dr Menon's3 letter in the October issue. Journal readers might be interested to hear about a recent patient of ours, who was referred to the central family planning (FP) clinic from a peripheral FP clinic for deep implant removal. This 27-year-old woman presented with a 3-month history of irregular per vagina bleeding, having had an implant in situ for 3 years. The deep implant was not palpable from the time …