Lithopedion : report of a case, with a review of the literature / by William Seaman Bainbridge.

  • William Seaman Bainbridge
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1912
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    nearly twenty-two years. It had entered the abdominal cavity through tubal rupture, and had here continued to develop. The woman had been treated at the time, twenty-two years ago, for abortion, but the fetus had not been found. During all these years her health was good until two years before, when she began to suffer from abdominal disturbances. Celiotomy was performed, revealing the lithopedion lying free between the coils of the intestine, and adherent to the omentum, with its entire right side. There was no trace of placenta, umbilical cord, or fetal membranes. 6. Kessler (Gesellschaft, /. Geburtshilje u. Gynaek., Berlin, meeting of February 14, 1902. Centrlbl. f. Gyn., No. 13, 1902): Specimen of lithopedion demonstrated. 7. Amann (Verhandlg. d. x Versammlung d. dtsch. Ges. f. Gyn., Wurzburg, June 3-6, 1903. Centrlbl.f. Gyn., No. 27, 1903): Demonstrated, among other specimens, a lithopedion and a lithokelyphopedion. 8. Rosthorn (Heidelberg), at the same meeting (op. cit.), presented a specimen of lithokelyphos interstitialis. 9. Brewis (Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. Scottish Med. and Surg. Jour., February, 1904): Demonstration of lithopedion, obtained at autopsy, which had remained forty-one years in the abdominal cavity. 10. Keitler (Geburtshilfl. Gynaekol. Gesellschaft, Wien, meet¬ ing of November 10, 1903. Centrlbl. f. gyn., No. 9, 1904): Demonstration of a fetal sac, with a mature fetus, which had been carried for twenty-two years, by a woman more than fifty-five years of age. Sac partly calcified—lithokelyphos. 11. Martin (Ein Lithokelyphos; inaugural Dissertation, Griefs- wald, 1904): Lithokelyphos, found at autopsy on a paralytic woman of seventy years of age. Size of ostrich egg. Inside the calcified sac was a well preserved fetus. The fetal parts con¬ tained no lime deposits. 12. Haultain (A Case of Lithopedion Forty-one Years in the Abdominal Cavity.—Jour, oj Obst. and Gyn. oj the British Empire, vol. vi, 1904): Patient, seventy-one years of age, was pregnant at the age of thirty, but had never been delivered of a child. The abdominal swelling remained for some years, then gradually diminished in size. She died suddenly of heart disease, and autopsy revealed a calcified fetus, to which the uterus, which was atrophied, was adherent. The normal configuration of the fetus was preserved to a remarkable degree. The tissues were contracted and calcareous on the limbs, but on the back, scalp, and breech they seemed of normal thickness. 13. Lumpe (Monatschrift. J. Geb. u. Gyn., vol. xxii, 1905): The patient was a widow, sixty-four years of age, in whose case a tubal pregnancy, with rupture about the seventh month, and secondary abdominal pregnancy, with formation of a lithopedion, were successively removed by laparotomy. The fetus of seven months had entered the abdominal cavity, leaving not only the