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44-year-old fetus Found Inside 84-year-Old Woman (PHOTO)
44-year-old fetus Found Inside 84-year-Old Woman (PHOTO)
An 84-year old woman in Brazil who sought emergency medical attention for severe stomach pains got the shock of her life. Doctors told her that they discovered she was carrying a dead fetus estimated to be 44 years old. The medical phenomenon called lithopedeon or “stone baby” is very rare and happens when a woman’s growing fetus suddenly dies outside the uterus and is then covered in a deposit of calcium since the body cannot expel it.
The woman admitted that she was pregnant at the age of 40 and sought medical treatment for stomach pains at the time. When the fetus no longer continued to grow and she didn’t feet any fetal movements after taking the prescribed medications, she assumed the fetus had aborted itself and she lost the baby.
Judging from X-rays taken of the 84-year old woman’s stomach, doctors say that the 44-year-old fetus had already developed facial features, limbs, ribs and a spine and likely succumbed due to unknown factors somewhere around the fifth month of pregnancy.
Since doctors have prescribed something for the woman’s pain which originally brought her to the emergency room, she decided she does not want surgery to remove the stone baby.
In December, a similar case was discovered in Colombia. That woman opted to have surgery. The Brazilian says she does not want the fetus removed.
On The Web:
44-year-old fetus
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/02/13/newser-woman-44-year-old-fetus/5450397/
44-year-old fetus
http://www.webpronews.com/44-year-old-fetus-found-inside-elderly-brazilian-woman-2014-02
44-year-old fetus: Calcified stone baby in 84-year-old woman’s abdomen will stay
http://www.examiner.com/article/44-year-old-fetus-stone-baby-found-calcified-84-year-old-woman-s-abdomen