Indian man's removed kidney one of the biggest ever
At the Sir Ganga Ram hospital in Delhi, doctors recently removed a kidney from a 56-year-old man with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. The kidney weighed 7.4 kg and was 45 cm long, whereas the Guinness Book of World Records mentions the largest kidney ever removed as being 4.25 kg, from a patient in Dubai.
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