BIZARRE News - 40-Year-Old Fetus Found Inside 82-Year-Old Colombian Woman.

Radiography photo of fetus found in 82-year-old Colombian woman.
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.
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. Abdominal pregnancy reportedly occurs in every 11,000 pregnancies, of which only about 1.5% develop into lithopedion.
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