Questions and answers. Vol. 24, No. 7 (1928)

21) How common is the lithopaedion, and what is the literature on this? Signed Kimbarovsky.Answer: The formation of a lithopaedion in cases of advanced ectopic pregnancy with a long stay of a dead fetus in the abdominal cavity is not particularly rare. You can find Russian literature on the issue until 1922 in my Obstetrics, vol. I, p. 598. In the latest Russian literature, I can point out the cases of Zhivatov (Journal Ak. and Zh. B., 1924, No. 3-4), Rozhdestvensky (Vr. Gaz., 1925, No. 5), Baksht (Journal. Ak. and J. Bol., 1925, No. 3), Bykovtsev (Sarat. Vest. Zdravookhr., 1925, No. 5-6), Dinets ( Journal of Ac. and J. Bol., 1927, No. 3), etc. Foreign literature on the issue can be found in the collections, manuals on obstetrics Winckel and Halban-Seitz.Prof. V. Gruzdev.