An AMAZING case of a lithopedion (stone baby) that was inside his mother’s pelvis for 40 years !! .
lithopedion is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as part of a foreign body reaction, shielding the mother's body from the dead tissue of the fetus and preventing infection. Lithopedia may occur from 14 weeks gestation to full term. It is not unusual for a stone baby to remain undiagnosed for decades and to be found well after natural menopause; diagnosis often happens when the patient is examined for other conditions that require being subjected to a X-ray study. A review of 128 cases by T.S.P. Tien found that the mean age of women with lithopedia was fifty-five years at the time of diagnosis, with the oldest being one-hundred years old. The lithopedia was carried for an average of twenty-two years, and in several cases, the women became pregnant a second time and gave birth to children without incident. Nine of the reviewed cases had carried lithopedia for over fifty years before diagnosis.
Wow...!!! But wt is meant by abdominal pregnancy sir? N how it does in womb without any external problems like eating papaya or accident or in case of ectopic pregnancy? N whn mother knws she is pregnant thn by 14 weeks the limbs might have occurred n their is a movement too right sir? Thn why didn't get herself diagnosed so soon? Sir pls explain me if u r interested bz I wanna knw mre abt this.....
