India, July 29 -- In what is possibly the first known case in India and among only a handful worldwide, a woman from Uttar Pradesh has been diagnosed with an ultra-rare intrahepatic ectopic pregnancy-a condition where the foetus was found growing inside her liver instead of the uterus.

The shocking discovery was made in Bulandshahr after the woman, suffering from persistent stomach pain and frequent vomiting, underwent an MRI scan. Dr. K.K. Gupta, a radiologist who owns a private imaging centre in Meerut, was the first to identify the unusual case.

"When I saw the scan, I couldn't believe my eyes. The foetus was embedded in the right lobe of the liver, and there were clear cardiac pulsations. I have never encountered anything like this ...