A 44-year-old foetus has been found inside the body of an 84-year-old Brazilian woman.
Doctors made the remarkable discovery last Friday after the pensioner was admitted to hospital in Natividade, Tocantins state, suffering from severe stomach pains and dizziness.
Medics who X-rayed the senior citizen's stomach were astonished to see the 20 to 28-week-old 'stone baby' inside.
She was then transferred to Porto Nacional Hospital near Palmas for more tests.
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Medics who X-rayed the senior citizen's stomach were astonished to see the 20 to 28-week-old 'stone baby' inside (file picture)
G1 reports that the woman, who has not been named, told doctors there that she became pregnant 44 years ago.
After experiencing excruciating pains she went to a witch doctor as there were no proper doctors in her village at the time.
She claims he prescribed her medication which almost immediately made her feel better.
'Her stomach didn't grow any more, the baby stopped moving and she thought it had been aborted,' Porto Nacional hospital gynaecologist Gesneria Saraiva Kratka told G1.
However, despite the death of the foetus, Saraiva Kratka said it remained inside the woman with her body quickly adapting to coping with carrying it around for more than four decades.
'Through ultrasound it was not possible to see the foetus, Dr Kratka added, saying: 'We saw it with X-rays. It was possible to see the face, the bones of the arms, of the legs, the ribs and the spine.'
The woman has since told doctors she has no intention of removing the foetus.
But Dr Kratka said she was hoping to change her mind in order to prevent further health complications from developing in the future.
'It's supernatural, but she has not had any complications,' she added.
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A Colombian woman suffering from stomach pain was found to have a 40-year-old fetus inside her
'We are going to perform some new tests, scans to see more details and then we will speak with her relatives to see if they allow us to operate.'
In December, A Colombian woman suffering from stomach pain was found to have a 40-year-old foetus inside her.
The 82-year-old, from Bogota, had what is known as 'lithopedion', or stone baby, when the unborn child develops outside the womb.
But an scans revealed lithopedion, where the fetus becomes calcified.There are fewer than 300 cases reported in medical literature
In 2009, a 92-year-old Chinese woman was found to have a 60-year-old 'stone baby' inside her.
The first reported case of lithopedion was Madame Colombe Chatri, a 68-year-old French woman.
An autopsy after her death in 1582 revealed she had been carrying a fully-developed stone baby in her abdominal cavity for 28 years.
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