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In this condition, the fetus dies and is not absorbed. Lithopedion is a rare obstetrical outcome of an undiagnosed and untreated advanced abdominal (ectopic) pregnancy where the fetus develops outside of the mother's womb in the case of stone babies, the deceased fetus has no way to leave the body and is too large for the body to reabsorb. They can remain undiagnosed for decades, and sometimes are.

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Lithopedion may occur from 14 weeks' gestation to full term. It was here that doctors found something truly extraordinary: She actually had a lithopedion inside her all those years. This highly unusual specimen remained in the abdomen of a woman for 55 years.