40-Year-Old Fetus Found Inside
82-Year-Old Colombian Woman Via NTD is reporting that: Doctors in Colombia
have found a 40-year-old fetus inside an elderly woman admitted to a Bogota
hospital for abdominal pain, local media reported on Wednesday (December 12).
The 82-year-old woman was thought to be
suffering from gastro-enteritis, an infectious form of diarrhea, when a
radiography exam at Bogota’s Tunjuelito Hospital discovered the fetus on Monday
(December 09).
“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 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.
Abdominal pregnancy reportedly occurs in every
11,000 pregnancies, of which only about 1.5% develop into lithopedion.
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