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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 ...
Maternal somatic support after brain death occurs when a brain dead patient is pregnant and their body is kept alive to deliver a fetus. It occurs very rarely internationally. Even among brain dead patients, in a U.S. study of 252 brain dead patients from 1990–96, only 5 (2.8%) cases involved pregnant women between 15 and 45 years of age. [1]
There is no reliable correlation between age, extent of calcium deposits in the brain, and neurological deficit. Since the appearance of calcification is age-dependent, a CT scan could be negative in a gene carrier who is younger than the age of 55. [30] Progressive neurological deterioration generally results in disability and death. [citation ...
A first-of-its-kind case study has highlighted the ways in which the brain changes throughout pregnancy, including decreases in gray matter volume, and increases in white matter. ... a 38-year-old ...
In 2009, a 92-year-old woman in China delivered a fetus she'd been carrying for 60 years. In 2008, a 9-year-old girl in Greece was diagnosed with a tumor that turned out to be the undeveloped ...
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 ...
Angiomas and numerous abnormal, small, dilated telangiectatic vessels with thickened, sclerotic and calcified walls have been found in those brain areas which also show calcifications. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] By analogy to Coats disease , the exudative retinopathy is thought to result from breakdown of the blood-retinal barrier at the level of the vascular ...
Fetus in fetu (or foetus in foetu) is a rare developmental abnormality in which a mass of tissue resembling a fetus forms inside the body of its twin. An early example of the phenomenon was described in 1808 by George William Young. [1] There are two hypotheses for the origin of a fetus in fetu.