Doctors find 50-year old fetus in 92 year old woman.

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When a 92-year-old Chilean woman was taken to the hospital after a fall recently, doctors performed a routine exam and were shocked when a hip X-ray revealed a 4.4-pound fetus filling her abdominal cavity. Hospital director Margo Vargas Lazo tells the BBC that the calcified fetus was "large and developed," and had probably been there at least 50 years. The AFP reports that the woman wasn't experiencing any pain because of it, and notes that the fetus was roughly seven months along when it died. The condition is called "lithopedion," and happens when a fetus dies and calcifies outside of the womb. Lazo tells the Efes news agency in Chile that this case is "extraordinarily rare," reports the Independent.

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