New Delhi: A team of doctors in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi has removed the "longest ureteric" stone from the ureter of a 35-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh, the hospital said on Tuesday. The stone was 22 cm long and weighed 60 grams, said a hospital statement, adding that its length was approximately the same as that of the ureter -- a urinary pipe leading from the kidney to the bladder. The normal length of the ureter is around 25 cm.

"It was the longest ureteric stone till date removed by city doctors using robot. The stone was removed from the ureter. The longest ureteric stone reported till now was by Taylor (an Urologist) which was 21.5 cms," said the statement.