Petrified fetuses lay 15 years in the 52-year-old woman's belly

The doctors in India were shocked to find a 4-month-old fetus "lying" for 15 years in the stomach of a 52-year-old woman, the news website reported.

According to DM, the anonymous woman lives in a small village near Nagpur, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. 15 years ago she had an abortion because the family refused to give birth to another child, the abortion was confirmed to be successful at that time.

Nilesh Junankariox obstetrician and petrified pregnant woman for 15 years.

After an abortion, the woman said that she sometimes had writhing abdominal pain but thought it was normal. In the last three years, the situation has become worse, often vomiting, and life-threatening, so I decided to see a doctor.

Through examination and testing, the doctor discovered that in this womb this woman had a fetus now "petrified" . After a 2-hour surgery performed on November 23, the doctors removed the fetus. Despite being 15 years pregnant, this woman is unaware. Successful operations, internal organs, especially the digestive and reproductive systems are not affected.

According to obstetrician Nilesh Junankariox, who directly operated, this is a rare case, menopausal patients 5 years ago, at the end of childbearing age, few people think that they are pregnant, only one tumor is found. large, obstructing the intestinal tract, causing compression of the digestive system. When surgery turns out 4-month-old fetus is now petrified.

According to medicine, the above case is called Lithopedion , also known as calcification , a rare disease, currently only 300 cases in the world have been reported. Petrified fetuses are the result of an ectopic pregnancy , most of the fetus does not survive. In order to limit inflammation, the fetus dies and has been "embalmed and petrified" by the body, living with a woman's body, with a petrification rate of 1.5-1.8% of all pregnancies outside. uterus estimated 1 / 11,000 ca.