Add one case of calcifying fetus for 40 years

(scienceinfo.net) - A woman with pain in her stomach was found to carry a 40-year-old fetus.

The 82-year-old woman was found to have a fetus growing outside her uterus. She will have to undergo surgery to remove this fetus, which is mainly composed of dead tissue.

Initially doctors thought she was attacked by a stomach injury, NTD TV said. The Colombian woman, suffering from stomach pain, was found to have a 40-year-old fetus. However, the scans detect a lithopedion , where the fetus is calcified. Until now, there have been fewer than 300 cases recorded in medicine. This woman will have to undergo surgery to remove this fetus from her body.

According to NTD, Dr. Kemer Ramirez of Bogota's Tunjuelito Hospital said the doctor treated her to notice something 'unusual in her stomach' and suspected that it was gallstones.

Ultrasound did not detect anything, but then the X-ray results revealed a tumor in the abdominal cavity.

Dr. Ramirez explained: 'This happens because the fetus does not develop in the uterus as it has moved to another place'.

Dr. Kemer Ramirez of Tunjuelito Hospital Bogota said this is a phenomenon of calcification of the fetus when the fetus develops outside the uterus.

"In this case, the abdomen of this patient is not a suitable place for the fetus and this is what happened, a fetus is calcified because the body has a protective mechanism and fetal calcification. until it covers it '.

The patient was thought to have been transferred to another hospital for surgery to remove the fetus.

In 2009, a case of a 92-year-old Chinese woman was found to have a 60-year-old fetus in the abdominal cavity.

The first case of a calcified fetus is known as Colombe Chatri, a 68-year-old Frenchman. The autopsy in 1582 revealed that Colombe Chatri had a fully developed calcified fetus in her abdominal cavity for 28 years.