After nearly four decades after her unborn infant died,
doctors in India have removed a baby’s skeleton from inside its mother.
An Indian woman Kantabai Thakre became pregnant in 1978 at
the age of 24. Doctors said the ectopic pregnancy (a complication of pregnancy
in which the embryo implants outside the uterine cavity) had little chance of
success. Continue
Thakre said she was terrified of an operation, so she fled
home and sought treatment for the pain in a small clinic near the village she
lived.
But last week, the pains returned, Thakre now 60, visited
doctors. They found a lump on the lower right side of her abdomen and the
doctors at the NKP Salve Institute of Medical Services were concerned about
cancer.
After an MRI scan, it was revealed that the hard mass was
the skeleton of her unborn child.
The head of surgery Dr Murtaza Akhtar told The Times of
India that “It was after the patient underwent a MRI that the doctors could
make out that the mass was in fact a child’s skeleton”.
The skeleton has now been removed. After searching medical
records, the team of doctors believe this may be the longest ectopic pregnancy
on record.
According to reports, the previous longest ectopic
pregnancy, when the foetus develops outside of the womb, was a Belgium woman
who carried the remains of the failed pregnancy for 18 years.
It was not revealed whether Thakre had other children as it
may have been discovered long before now.
Photo Credit: The Independent UK
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