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**Diagnosis:** Lithopedion (stone baby) — a rare calcified fetus from an abdominal ectopic pregnancy retained for over 40 years in an 82-year-old woman.
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82-year-old woman with 40-year-old baby An 82-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pain, and doctors initially feared a tumor. Scans revealed something far rarer: a fetus that had turned to stone inside her body more than 40 years earlier. The condition is called lithopedion or “stone baby,” and it can happen when a rare ectopic pregnancy cannot be expelled or absorbed, so the body encases it in calcium to prevent infection. Fewer than 300 cases have ever been documented, often discovered by accident late in life, showing how far the human body can go to survive in silence.
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