TITLE:
Calcified Abdominal Pregnancy with Five Years of Evolution (Lithopedion): A Case Report
AUTHORS:
Nafisa A. Mohamed, Ikram A. Hajji, Salah A. Omar, Khalid S. Kalib, Abdirizak H. Ali
KEYWORDS:
Abdominal Pregnancy, Lithopedion
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Vol.6 No.8,
July
28,
2016
ABSTRACT: Lithopedion is a rare phenomenon resulting from an extra-uterine
pregnancy that advances to fetal demise and calcification and there are less
than 300 cases reported in 400 years of medical literature. This rare condition
was first described by a surgeon of the Arabic era of medicine in the 10th century. This case report is a 26-year-old, multiparous woman who had presented
a lower abdominal pain for long time and she had never attended in pre-natal
clinic. She came to our hospital with pain and tumoral mass in infra-umbilical
area and then we referred to radiology center, after that ultrasound
examination of radiology center demonstrated an extra-uterine abdominal 30-week pregnancy measuring the femoral
length, this for first diagnosis of radiology center. After laparotomy
was performed we met an oval shaped mass that attached the omentum in
peritoneal cavity and this mass was a fetus retention of 5 years without
calcified ovular membranes but the fetus was calcified so this type is called lithopedion
that describes according to the Kuechenmeister classification in 1881. She made
good post-operative recovery after extraction the stone baby.