The patient, 50-year-old Jaya (name changed) who hails from Uttar Pradesh, had approached several doctors back in her hometown before she arrived in the city. A CT scan revealed that the stomach aches that had been crippling her for the last four months were caused by a large stone with a diameter of 2.8 cm and circumference of 7cm. The stone was growing in her common bile duct, which joins the liver and gall bladder to the intestines.

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“Usually, gall bladder stones are not more than 1-2 cm long and are found in the common bile duct, which has a maximum width of 7 mm. In this case, it was as large as 8 cm long. In the 30 years of my practice, this is the first time I have seen such a large gallstone,” said Dr Arshad S Khan, honorary professor at the hospital. He added that after referring to international medical journals, it was found that a gall stone of around 9 cm was last recorded in the 1970s, making this the second largest such stone to be extracted from a patient’s body.