A lithopedion is a rare phenomenon with only a few hundred cases report in the medical literature. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Believe it or not, forming a lithopedion is a best case scenario. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Seriously, does he really think that crap is cool? lithopedion said ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Rothschilds and University of Texas at Austin archaeologist Leland Bement have recently identified a 3,100-year-old lithopedion case at the Bering Sinkhole site in Texas. ❋ Unknown (1997)
But Bruce Rothschild, who has examined the Costebelle skeleton, contends that it is not a case of congenital syphilis but of lithopedion. ❋ Unknown (1997)
Fetal skeleton from Costebelle, France, has been claimed to show effects of congenital syphilis but may be an example of lithopedion. ❋ Unknown (1997)
According to Bruce Rothschild the lesions in the Costebelle case indicate lithopedion. ❋ Unknown (1997)
Israel Spach, in an extensive gynecologic work published in 1557, figures a lithopedion drawn in situ in the case of a woman with her belly laid open. ❋ Unknown (1896)
In the writings of Albucasis, * [115] during the eleventh century, extrauterine pregnancy is discussed, and later the works of N. Polinus and Cordteus, about the sixteenth century, speak of it; in the case of Cordseus the fetus was converted into a lithopedion and carried in the abdomen twenty-eight years. ❋ Unknown (1896)
In the writings of Albucasis, during the eleventh century, extrauterine pregnancy is discussed, and later the works of N. Polinus and Cordseus, about the sixteenth century, speak of it; in the case of Cordseus the fetus was converted into a lithopedion and carried in the abdomen twenty-eight years. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Now, the clinical history is a bit sketchy but the most likely presumptive diagnosis is a lithopedion (litho = stone; pedion = child), or ❋ Unknown (2009)
Usually, a lithopedion occurs after a fetus dies during an ectopic abdominal pregnancy and is too large to be reabsorbed by the body (EGA 14 wks and up). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mummification and formation of a lithopedion occasionally ensue, and calcified products of conception may be carried for years. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There are instances in which a period of 20 to 50 years elapsed before removal of a lithopedion at operation or autopsy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Dew slurpie and subtitled animes while I check to see if it’s up yet. lithopedion said ❋ Unknown (2007)
So it will definitely happen sooner or later… hopefully before Oct ‘08! lithopedion said ❋ Unknown (2007)
"Stone children" or lithopedion, a rarity occurring in only 0.0045 percent of pregnancies, are the calcification of a fetus or of fetal membranes and were first described in a treatise on surgery by Albucasis (A.D. ❋ Unknown (1997)
