A 50-year-old woman from Congo who had previously sought medical treatment due to abdominal cramps and other symptoms was sent to the United States for examination and found that there was a "stillborn baby" in her abdomen that had not been removed.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] A foreign journal reported that a 50-year-old Congolese woman who had previously sought medical treatment for abdominal cramps and other symptoms was sent to the United States for examination and found that there was a "stillborn baby" in her abdomen that had not been removed. ", due to previous negative medical experience, the woman refused to undergo surgery, and eventually died of severe malnutrition.

A case report published on the 7th by the international journal "BMC Women's Health" pointed out that a 50-year-old Congolese refugee woman suffered from the rare symptom "Lithopedion" which has less than 300 cases in history.

It is said that she had previously given birth to 8 babies by natural birth, but during the ninth pregnancy, she found that the fetal movement decreased. After going to the doctor for examination, she was told that the baby had no heartbeat. Medical staff accused her of killing babies with anesthetics, a negative experience that made her terrified of medical professionals and even refused any treatment for it.

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As a result, the woman was pregnant with a stillbirth for 9 years, and was subsequently sent to the United States for examination due to chronic abdominal pain and indigestion. Decay, considered by the body as a foreign body that could cause infection, calcifies and eventually forms a "stone fetus".

Through the scan, it can be found that there is a mass about 15 by 20 centimeters in her abdomen, which is about the size of lettuce, and the child's skeleton can also be seen vaguely.

Although it was confirmed by examination that she had a stone fetus, because of her distrust of medical treatment and the insistence of the Congolese woman that she had a stone fetus because she was cursed, she continued to refuse to have a stone fetus removed. Tumors in the uterus and other parts, and finally died of malnutrition 14 months after being placed in the United States.