82-Year-Old Woman Carried Fetus For 40 Years

Posted December 14, 2013 11:41 by Alan

Known as a “stone baby,” a fetus that stays in a woman’s abdomen isn’t unheard of. The latest case took place in Bogota, Columbia.

“An 82-year-old patient who arrived at emergency services on December 8 with diarrhea and in the medical exam the medic who was looking over (the patient) noted something abnormal in her abdomen and ordered an exam thinking that perhaps it was gallstones. An ultrasound was done and it wasn’t positive. Then, an abdominal radiography was ordered which located a tumor in the abdominal cavity which concluded that it was a fetus in the woman’s abdomen,” said Dr. Kemer Ramirez.

Local media reported that the fetus had been inside the woman for some 40 years, the result of a rare medical phenomena known as lithopedion where a fetus does not develop in the uterus but the abdominal.

“This happens because the fetus does not develop in the uterus because it has moved to another place. In this case, the abdominal part of the woman is not a viable (place) and this is what happened, a calcified fetus because the body is generating defense mechanisms and it is calcified until it stays there encapsulated,” explained Ramirez. – See more at: http://www.ntd.tv/en/news/world/south-america/20131211/83820-colombian-doctors-discover-40yearold-fetus-in-eldery-woman.html#sthash.AlVAAoL0.dpuf