Patient discovers mummified fetus in the womb for over 50 years

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Patient discovers mummified fetus in the womb for over 50 years

An 86-year-old woman caught the attention of the medical team at the Ponta Porã Regional Hospital, in Mato Grosso do Sul, last week. The lady was hospitalized with abdominal pain and discovered five decades ago she was “keeping” a mummified fetus in the womb. She had to undergo surgery to remove the “abdominal mass”. The patient was referred to the ICU but died days later. It is suspected that the papyraceous fetus, when a kind of calcification …