Case shows danger of stopping contraceptive injections abruptly

Doctors report how a young women presented in ED with an 'alarming' infection from an unpassed deciduous cast of the endometrium

Doctors are alerting colleagues to a rare complication of the depot injection, after a young UK woman developed an infection from an unpassed deciduous cast of the endometrium.

They say the cast — a mass in the shape of the endometrium — is thought to have formed after she abruptly creased the contraceptive.