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A lithopedion (also spelled lithopaedion or lithopædion; from Ancient Greek: λίθος "stone" and Ancient Greek: παιδίον "small child, infant"), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, [1] is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as ...
Anteroposterior abdominal radiograph shows a soft-tissue mass in the right hemiabdomen. The mass contains calcified osseous-appearing structures of varying sizes and shapes. The postoperative specimen from the previous image shows a fairly well developed fetus lying on its back, with rudimentary digits.
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Primary familial brain calcification [1] (PFBC), also known as familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (FIBGC) and Fahr's disease, [1] is a rare, [2] genetically dominant or recessive, inherited neurological disorder characterized by abnormal deposits of calcium in areas of the brain that control movement.
The reduced size of brain structures associated with memory and attention was also noted through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a process used to produce images of the brain for observation. [34] For example, those with prenatal methamphetamine exposure had, on average, a smaller hippocampus (a brain structure involved in many things ...
Doctors believe this woman's baby died around 20 to 28 weeks into the pregnancy. And last December, another elderly woman in Colombia discovered a calcified baby in her abdomen. It was 40 years ...
Leonardo mistakenly depicted the cotyledons in the vascular walls of the human uterus that he had previously found in a cow uterus. [3] The other study, measuring 30.3×22 cm, shows female external genitalia, the supposed arrangement of abdominal muscles on the top right and fetus from different angles.
An Oregon baby underwent surgery to remove half of his brain due to a rare disorder and seizures. Jackson Williamson was just 3 months old when he started suffering seizures.