Skeleton removed 38 years - A team of doctors led by Dr. Mohammad Yunus Shah had operated on an Indian woman believed to have had the world's longest ectopic pregnancy in history.
In the medical case dubbed as the skeleton removed 38 years, 62-year-old Jyoti Kumar of Madhya Pradesh, had been suffering from consistent abdominal pain and urinary problems with high fever, so she decided to see doctors at the NKP Salve Institution of Medical Sciences, in the central Indian city of Nagpur, the Independent has learned.
Doctors then discovered a lump on her lower right side and a CT scan revealed a mass made of hard, calcified matter. When doctors checked on Kumar's medical history, they found out that she had been pregnant in 1978 at the age of 24 but her baby died.
Scared of surgery, Kumar fled the hospital and sought treatment in a small clinic where she found temporary relief for abdominal pain. Assuming that everything had been treated, she went on with her life until 38 years later, the abdominal pain would no longer subside and she would start having urinary problems accompanied by fever.
After the woman in the skeleton removed 38 years case underwent a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan, it was clarified that the mass was in fact a child's skeleton.
The doctors then operated on Kumar and removed the mass containing the matured skeleton.
"The amniotic fluid that protects the foetus might have been absorbed and the soft tissues liquefied over time with only a bag of bones with some fluid remaining," Dr. Shah told the Daily Mail.
The last woman to have held the record for the longest case of ectopic pregnancy was reportedly a Belgian woman who had carried the remains of her child for 18 years.
Kumar of the skeleton removed 38 years case, probably now holds the record for the longest ectopic pregnancy.
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