DOCTORS were shocked to find an enormous ‘vagina stone’ lurking inside a woman’s pelvis after she rushed into A&E.
The woman, 27, was raced into the emergency department after she complained of horror abdominal pain.
The pain was followed by vomiting, and the feeling hot and cold in the days that followed.
When the woman was checked over, doctors found a massive vaginal stone the size of an orange.
Medics were then forced to undertake a painstaking three-hour procedure with lasers to break the stone down to remove it.
Shocking X-rays show the sheer size of the mass, which takes up much of the woman’s pelvic area.
Other images show the pieces of the stone after being broken up by experts and pulled from the body with forceps.
The journal Urology Case Reports reported the woman was the most recent person to develop such a stone – which happens when stagnant urine builds up in the vagina.
The urine then begins to form hardened crystals, which continue to grow.
This is often triggered by an untreated bacterial infection, experts say.
A more common type of such stone is a kidney stone – which more than one in 10 people usually get in their lives in the UK.
Vaginal stones however are extremely rare – with fewer than 100 cases ever reported in medical history.
Such stones also tend to be more common in people who are bedbound.
The Lebanese woman who suffered the most recent case of a vagina stone had cerebral palsy.
She was raced to hospital with the horror symptoms, as well as the fact she was eating less than usual and looked pale and lethargic.
When the 27-year-old was checked over and given a CT scan, doctors found a big, round mass in her pelvic area.
Doctors at the Lebanese University were then forced to use laser therapy – using ultrasound from outside the woman’s body – to break the mass down.
The medics then had to use forceps to remove pieces of the stone bit by bit.
Experts believe the woman’s cerebral palsy was one of the reasons she developed the rare stones.
They said as cerebral palsy patients who often lie down for long periods and have urinary incontinence are at risk of developing vagina stones.
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