One woman has been struggling with mysterious stomachaches for 15 years. Most doctors prescribed her painkillers instead of ordering tests. Only specialists from a hospital in India discovered that the woman was carrying a four-month-old fossilized fetus. How is this even possible?
A woman decided to terminate her pregnancy 15 years ago. The doctor who performed the procedure assured her that everything had gone according to plan, and there was no need to worry. However, it happened otherwise. Over the following years, the woman suffered from mysterious abdominal pain. Instead of examining her, the 52-year-old’s doctors prescribed more painkillers and acid remedies.
Only Dr. Nilesh Junankar helped her. Thorough research commissioned by him has shown that the intestinal obstruction, and thus persistent pain, is caused by the stone structure. It was she who blocked the digestive system. During the two-hour operation, the stone mass turned out to be a four-month-old fossilized fetus.
Experts explain that the so-called abdominal pregnancy occurs once in 11 pregnancies. It happens when the placenta grows into the abdominal wall, for example. The embryo leaves the uterus and goes to another place through the damaged blood vessel. Lithopedion, or fetal calcification, has only been recorded 400 times in 300 years. In most cases, a woman does not even realize she is pregnant. The body cannot cope with the expulsion of the resulting formation, so to avoid infection, it surrounds it with a calcareous coating.