How much did the largest stone ever removed from a human kidney weigh?
It happens that people become record holders against their will, that is, without doing almost anything to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
62-year-old Canistus Kunhe, who lived in Sri Lanka, found himself in a similar situation.
The man turned to doctors for help, woke up after the operation and learned that his name would now be entered into the famous book of records.
The fact is that doctors discovered a stone in his kidney that was 2 cm longer than the kidney itself.
To be fair, it must be said that it was the stone that made it into the Book of Records, not Canistus Cunhe.
The length of the stone was 13.3 cm, the width was 10.5 cm, and it weighed 800 grams.
What is no less interesting is that despite the fact that the man lived for a long time with such a boulder inside, his right kidney continued to function normally.
This circumstance surprised the doctors no less than the size of the extracted stone.
Previously, the largest stone was a 13-centimeter stone that was removed from a patient's kidney in India.
The heaviest stone was found in the kidney of a Pakistani resident. It weighed 620 grams.
Earlier we told you who became the youngest medical specialist in history.
