World's Largest Kidney Stone Posted at 3/29/2009 10:09:00 PM 0 comments (+) Urologist Judit Csorba holds the huge kidney stone up
for Mr and Mrs Sarkadi to see.
The largest kidney stones most doctors ever get to see is the size of a golf ball. So surgeons in Hungary were taken aback when they removed a stone the size of a coconut from a man earlier today.

Mr Sardaki was rushed into an operation theatre in the Kenez Gyula Hospital when an X-ray revealed he was carrying around the gigantic lump.

The delicate procedure to remove the stone, which weighed a staggering 2.48lbs, passed without incident.

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