Doctors removed from the 84-year-old woman 44-year-old fruit

84-year-old Brazilian has addressed to the doctor complaining of stomach pains. When doctors conducted the study, they found the woman in the abdomen strange seal, which turned out to be the fruit conceived 44 years ago.

lithopedion

The woman became pregnant 44 years ago, and soon faced with sharp pains in the abdomen, to get rid of them seek medical attention. They have given her medication, has proved very effective - the pain was gone. But along with it, it seems to have died, and fruit. The woman felt that he had ceased to move and grow. She decided that the child had left her body, as is the case with medical abortion. But in fact, the fruit was left in her womb for decades.

The dead child ( lithopedion ) Calcified or petrified, but it is a very long time did not bother my mother. Only a few months ago at the elderly woman began abdominal pain, because she decided to consult a doctor. X-rays allowed to see the "stone baby", who died in the period of about 20-28 weeks, according to doctors.

Naturally, after such findings gathered surgeons remove lithopedion   from the abdomen of the patient, but she resolutely refused to go under the scalpel. All the more so after the therapeutic treatment of a woman get rid of pain. Doctors urged her to agree to surgery in order to avoid possible complications in the future, but the Brazilian did not want to hear about it.

"This, of course, is unnatural, but we can not conduct operations force - said the surgeon-gynecologist Gesher Saraiva. - In the end, the fetus remained in her stomach 44 years old, does not cause any complications. Perhaps it will be so in the future" . (READ MORE)

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