What is a stone baby? It was removed from a woman’s stomach after 24 weeks, know the miracle of doctors here
Doctors at King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh have successfully removed the calcified remains of a 24-week-old foetus from the abdomen of a female patient. The condition is called stone baby or lithopedion. It is a rare phenomenon that usually occurs when the foetus dies during pregnancy in the abdomen. The stone baby is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and later gets calcified.
A condition like lithopedia can occur from 1 week of pregnancy to a full-term pregnancy. It is not uncommon for a stone baby to remain undiagnosed for decades and resolve after natural menopause. The disease is often diagnosed when the patient is being investigated for other conditions that require an X-ray study.
What is stone baby?
Let us tell you that a 27-year-old patient from Anakapalle district of Visakhapatnam, who is a mother of two children, suffered from severe stomach pain due to which she reached KGH in the third week of August, after which it was found that there was a stone baby in her stomach in which the baby’s rib cage, skull, pelvic bone, scapula etc. were removed. The medical team performed the surgery on August 31. The operation was successful and the woman is recovering.
