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Case Report
Abdominal lithopedion formation with 30 years of evolution: report of a case
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Department of Pathology, Second People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming
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Science, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou
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Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical
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Department of Teaching Affairs, Second People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming
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Department of Ultrasound, Second People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming (China)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2016, 43(2), 294–296;
https://doi.org/10.12891/ceog2093.2016
Published: 10 April 2016
Abstract
The incidence of abdominal pregnancy is very rare, long-retained abdominal pregnancy undergoing fetal death and evolving to a lithopaedion is even more scarce. The authors report the case of a 60-year-old woman who discovered an abdominal mass 31 years ago that was recently identified intraoperatively as lithopaedion. Although imaging had revealed a low-level echogenic mass in the cavity, nobody had considered the possibility of a lithopaedion before the operation. The authors strongly suggest identifying the small skeletal frame through imaging that will be a very important preoperative sign that will lead to a diagnosis, otherwise neglected in the past years.
Keywords
Abdominal lithopedion
Fetal death
Calcification