{"id":4560,"date":"2014-01-12T20:56:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2019-06-21T20:32:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:32:58","slug":"radiology-pic-du-jour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4560","title":{"rendered":"Radiology Pic Du Jour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pamazon sent me a very interesting radiological discovery, originally posted on the website Radiology Picture of the Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lithopaedion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lithopaedion-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"lithopaedion\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lithopaedion-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lithopaedion.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally-discovered calcified pelvic mass during workup for low back pain in a 56-year old woman. The patient recalled abnormal obstetric history 30 years ago. Otherwise, there was no relevant clinical or lab abnormality. CT scan clearly shows an extra-uterine calcified fetal skeleton on MPCR (multi-planar curved reformat) images.<\/p>\n<p>A lithopedion (litho = stone; pedion = child), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an ectopic pregnancy. If the dead fetus is too large to be re-absorbed by the mother\u2019s body it becomes a foreign body to the mother\u2019s immune system. To protect itself from possible infection, the mother\u2019s body will encase the fetus in a calciferous substance. The fetus is gradually mummified becoming a stone baby. Lithopedions\u00a0may occur from 14 weeks\u2019 gestation to full term. It is not unusual for a stone baby to remain undiagnosed for decades and found incidentally when taking plain films for various reasons (like this case).<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>\n1.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithopedion\">Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n2. Chang, et al. Lithopedion case report\u00a0<em>Chinese Medical Journal (Taipei)<em>\u00a02001;64:369-372<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: Dr Ahmed Haroun<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamazon sent me a very interesting radiological discovery, originally posted on the website Radiology Picture of the Day. Incidentally-discovered calcified pelvic mass during workup for low back pain in a 56-year old woman. The patient recalled abnormal obstetric history 30 years ago. Otherwise, there was no relevant clinical or lab abnormality. CT scan clearly shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghastly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7325,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}