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STONE BABY
The patient is a 37-year-old Zairian female who lives in a village of Malongo at the headwaters of the Congo River. She presented with a relatively asymptomatic large abdominal mass. Examination revealed a distended abdomen with a very irregularly contoured mass present consistent with a large fibroid uterus 28-32 weeks size. The patient was having fairly regular periods. She has had eight previous pregnancies with five living children. Recommendation made for exploratory laparotomy through a midline incision with a working diagnosis of uterine leiomyomata.
Exploration through the midline incision revealed no free fluid present in the abdomen. The uterus and ovaries felt fairly normal to palpation. A large calcified spherical mass was delivered through the incision, enveloped with omental adhesions. At this point diagnosis was thought be possibly some type of splenic or mesenteric tumor. The diagnosis was finally made when a shoulder was delivered along with this mass. Finally, after the adhesions were removed, a four pound calcified fetus was removed. This appeared to be approximately a 32-week intra-abdominal pregnancy which had died and calcified.
In further questioning the patient, she stated that she had been pregnant about three years ago and everything seemed to be going fine, but "the baby never came out."
picture of stone baby: http://www.obgyn.net/english/pubs/articles/photo-4b.jpg
i want one so bad. (although i can't imagine how painful giving birth to a statue would be.)
i would like one of these stone babies to throw at little fat boys, or to line up one by one in my front lawn. or just throw one down from the top of the empire state building and watch is shatter into stone baby pieces.
another good idea would be to wait in a bathroom stall with the calcified baby and wait til someone walks into the stall next to yours then THROW the little rock guy overhead into the victim's stall. i bet the first instinct would be to catch it.
you can wrap it in a papoose too, suspend it from the ceiling and whack it with a stick like a pinata to produce cool sounds.
!!!!!!!!!
what would you do with a stone baby?
STONE BABY
The patient is a 37-year-old Zairian female who lives in a village of Malongo at the headwaters of the Congo River. She presented with a relatively asymptomatic large abdominal mass. Examination revealed a distended abdomen with a very irregularly contoured mass present consistent with a large fibroid uterus 28-32 weeks size. The patient was having fairly regular periods. She has had eight previous pregnancies with five living children. Recommendation made for exploratory laparotomy through a midline incision with a working diagnosis of uterine leiomyomata.
Exploration through the midline incision revealed no free fluid present in the abdomen. The uterus and ovaries felt fairly normal to palpation. A large calcified spherical mass was delivered through the incision, enveloped with omental adhesions. At this point diagnosis was thought be possibly some type of splenic or mesenteric tumor. The diagnosis was finally made when a shoulder was delivered along with this mass. Finally, after the adhesions were removed, a four pound calcified fetus was removed. This appeared to be approximately a 32-week intra-abdominal pregnancy which had died and calcified.
In further questioning the patient, she stated that she had been pregnant about three years ago and everything seemed to be going fine, but "the baby never came out."
picture of stone baby: http://www.obgyn.net/english/pubs/articles/photo-4b.jpg
i want one so bad. (although i can't imagine how painful giving birth to a statue would be.)
i would like one of these stone babies to throw at little fat boys, or to line up one by one in my front lawn. or just throw one down from the top of the empire state building and watch is shatter into stone baby pieces.
another good idea would be to wait in a bathroom stall with the calcified baby and wait til someone walks into the stall next to yours then THROW the little rock guy overhead into the victim's stall. i bet the first instinct would be to catch it.
you can wrap it in a papoose too, suspend it from the ceiling and whack it with a stick like a pinata to produce cool sounds.
!!!!!!!!!
what would you do with a stone baby?
It is quite common for calcifiaction to occur as in intra-abdominal pregnancies the foetus can't be miscarried, but at this size 
I'm afraid not 
