The dead fetus remained in the womb 40 years

In 82-year-old resident of Colombia, suffer from chronic pain in the abdomen, the doctors in the survey discovered the dead fetus. The most amazing thing is that he stayed inside his mother more than 40 years.

lithopedion

An elderly woman from Bogota was the victim of a phenomenon that was called lithopedion   or "stone fruit". It occurs when the uterus or abdomen dying fetus, which for some reason is not taken out. The mother's body exposes the fetus obezyzvestvleniyu calcification and to protect themselves from dead tissue and prevent the development of infections.

More often litopeidon   observed in an ectopic pregnancy. Columbian believed that picked up some sort of stomach infection when contact your doctor. But an ultrasound scan revealed the presence of "stone fruit". In medicine, it describes a total of about 300 such cases in history. Currently, the patient is prepared for surgery to remove the fetus.

"Lithopedion occurs when the fetus is developing in the womb, as the moves to another location, - says surgeon Kemer Ramirez, who is going to conduct the operation. - But abdomen wrong place for the development of the fetus, so that he died, then to the calcified . The patient was unaware of her pregnancy, she did ultrasound, it all happened in early pregnancy, as well as a noticeable pain appeared only now, in the deep old age. "

In 2009, 92-year-old Chinese woman was discovered by a "stone fruit", which amounted to as much as age 60 years. The first documented case lithopedion occurred in 1582, 68-year-old Frenchwoman Colombe tent. Her autopsy showed that abdominal preserved fossilized fully formed fetus, who was about 28 years old. (READ MORE)

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