A 52-year-old woman from India has complained of severe abdominal pain for many years. She got pregnant 15 years ago, but knowing that this unplanned pregnancy would anger her family members, she made attempts to kill the baby in her stomach.
When her belly stopped growing, she was sure that she completely got rid of the embryo. After a visit to the obstetrician, she was confirmed that she was no longer pregnant. But since then, she began to experience frequent severe abdominal pains and vomited occasionally. As it turned out, her baby's 4-month-old embryo had been in her stomach all these years and calcified (petrified).
The woman asked journalists not to give her name, she does not want her family to know about her problem.
When a woman was in pain, the doctors thought that she had an acidic stomach and gave her pills for it. But over the past three years, the woman's condition has worsened greatly, she began to feel sick very often. She turned to specialists and during the examination they found a foreign object in the intestine region, which interfered with the digestive system.
The doctors decided that the patient had intestinal obstruction and sent her for surgery. On November 23, after a two-hour operation, a fossilized fetus of a 4-month-old baby was removed from the woman.
Doctors were shocked by the find. According to them, this condition in women is extremely rare. At the same time, the child was not in the uterus, but in the intestinal region, that is, initially the woman had an ectopic pregnancy.
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- The patient was not of childbearing age, her periods stopped 5 years ago, - says Dr. Nilesh, - Her uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes were in perfect order, but in the abdominal cavity next to the intestines were the remains of her baby, hard as a stone. We removed it along with some of the surrounding tissue.
Fossilized embryos are called lithopedion. Over the past 400 years, such an anomaly has been met all over the world only about 300 times.
