75yo Woman Carries Dead Foetus For 50 Years

News24: Foetus shocker for gran

A 75-year-old woman hospitalised in Vietnam a week ago with abdominal pain was found to be carrying a foetus that's at least 50 years old, doctors said on Monday.

Dinh Thi Thu was shocked when doctors told her she was carrying the foetus, according to Nguyen Ngoc Tai, the director of the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital.

"She said she noticed the growth in her belly fifty years ago. At that time, she sometimes felt some movement in her abdomen, but gradually, she just forgot about it and found no problem with it," Dr Tai said.

Scans revealed the skull, backbone, ribs and limbs to be the size of a normal eight-month-old foetus.

"The foetus is dead, of course, and has been calcified." Tai said.