Author(s)

Nafisa A. Mohamed, Ikram A. Hajji, Salah A. Omar, Khalid S. Kalib, Abdirizak H. Ali

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Benadir Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia.

Lithopedion is a rare phenomenon resulting from an extra-uterine pregnancy that advances to fetal demise and calcification and there are less than 300 cases reported in 400 years of medical literature. This rare condition was first described by a surgeon of the Arabic era of medicine in the 10^th century. This case report is a 26-year-old, multiparous woman who had presented a lower abdominal pain for long time and she had never attended in pre-natal clinic. She came to our hospital with pain and tumoral mass in infra-umbilical area and then we referred to radiology center, after that ultrasound examination of radiology center demonstrated an extra-uterine abdominal 30-week pregnancy measuring the femoral length, this for first diagnosis of radiology center. After laparotomy was performed we met an oval shaped mass that attached the omentum in peritoneal cavity and this mass was a fetus retention of 5 years without calcified ovular membranes but the fetus was calcified so this type is called lithopedion that describes according to the Kuechenmeister classification in 1881. She made good post-operative recovery after extraction the stone baby.

Abdominal Pregnancy, Lithopedion

Mohamed, N. , Hajji, I. , Omar, S. , Kalib, K. and Ali, A. (2016) Calcified Abdominal Pregnancy with Five Years of Evolution (Lithopedion): A Case Report. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6, 515-519. doi: 10.4236/ojog.2016.68065.