{UAH} Woman with stomach pain is found to have a 40-year-old fetus inside her

Woman with stomach pain is found to have a 40-year-old fetus inside her

Updated Friday, December 13th 2013 at 10:27 GMT +3

-Adapted from Daily Mail

A Colombian woman suffering from stomach pain was found to have a 40-year-old fetus inside her.

The 82-year-old, from Bogota, had what is known as 'lithopedion', or stone baby, when the unborn child develops outside the womb.

The woman was originally thought to be suffering from a stomach bug, NTD TV reports.

But an scans revealed lithopedion, where the fetus becomes calcified.There are fewer than 300 cases reported in medical literature. 

The woman will now will undergo surgery to have the fetus - mostly comprised of dead tissue - removed.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

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