Talk:Lithopedion

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[edit] Bizarre stats

"Stone babies are rare, occurring in only 0.0045 percent (1 in 22,000) of pregnancies. Fewer than 300 cases have been noted in medical literature accumulated over some 400 years."

By my calculations that's suggesting there's only been about six and half million pregnancies (22000 x 300) observed by the medical profession in the last four hundred years, which is staggeringly short of the mark considering about one hundred and thirty million births (global pop. over mean birth rate) occurred in 2005 alone. Although I'm not suggesting all would have been observed, even recording the outcome of a single percent of those births would have beaten that figure twice over in a single year. I'm sure I could rustle up a more accurate ratio, but there's little point as it'd be original research (shock! horror!). I'll just lop the incidence figures off of the main article instead. ◄ИΞШSΜΛЯΞ► 21:32, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] citations?

do we have a citation for this -- The oldest reported case is that of a 94 year old woman, whose lithopedion had probably been present for over 60 years

Justforasecond 17:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)