Incredible picture shows ‘stone baby’ fetus found in womb of elderly woman who complained of stomach pain
The rare condition sees a calcified fetus called a lithopedion carried around for decades without the woman realising it. The woman carried the fetus, weighing 4.5 lbs and aged seven months, for 35 years.
Lithopedion (stone baby) is a rare phenomenon which occurs when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy and calcifies on the outside. When the pregnancy ultimately fails, usually because the fetus does not have enough blood supply, there is no way for the body to expel the fetus. As a result, the body calcifies the fetus turning it to ‘stone’ using the same immune process that protects from any foreign object detected in a person's system.
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