Overview
- Last week a surgical team at Trincomalee District General Hospital removed a bladder stone weighing about 3.1 kilograms and measuring roughly 17 centimetres from a 55-year-old patient.
- The stone was discovered after the patient, admitted following a stroke, developed difficulty urinating and doctors investigated his bladder.
- Lead surgeon Dr. Prahaladhan Balakrishnan said the stone may have formed over five to ten years and described it as about the size of an ostrich egg.
- Hospital officials plan to seek independent verification from Guinness World Records but the claim has not yet been confirmed by outside authorities.
- Medically, bladder stones form when urine stays in the bladder and minerals crystallise; stones larger than 4cm are classed as giant and the current Guinness entry from Brazil in 2003 recorded a 1.9kg, 17.9cm stone.