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Doctors Remove 3.1kg Bladder Stone, Claim World Record

Summary by The Morning News
A routine medical problem turned into an extraordinary discovery in Sri Lanka. Doctors removed a 3.1kg bladder stone from a 55-year-old man potentially the largest ever recorded.The stone was removed last week at Trincomalee General Hospital. Doctors noticed the patient, who had been admitted following a stroke, was struggling to urinate.What they found was astonishing: a stone about 17cm long and roughly the size of an ostrich egg.How does some…

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In Sri Lanka, a 55-year-old patient who had reportedly been carrying a foreign object for several years was made to have his life made easier.

·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Doctors in Sri Lanka have removed a 3.1kg (6.6lb) stone from the bladder of a 55-year-old man. The surgery was carried out last week at a hospital in the eastern city of Trincomalee, a feat that could earn him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Doctors at Trincomalee Hospital, Sri Lanka, removed a 3.1 kg calculation of a man's bladder during an operation, which they believe could be the largest calculation of this type ever recorded. A urinary calculation of the size of an ostrich egg. A 55-year-old man was admitted to the Trincomalee Hospital in the east of the country last week after a stroke. While he was having difficulty urinating, the doctors discovered the presence of calculatio…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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The Morning News broke the news on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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