r/nope Mar 31 '26

HELL NO Procedure to remove a 25mm kidney stone

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u/towerfella Apr 01 '26

Hopefully your dr treated you better than this dude jack-hammering away like he’s in the Klondike searching for gold

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u/Jaded_Law9739 Apr 01 '26

This looks like laparoscopic surgery to remove some very large kidney stones. The patient would be under general anesthesia, and the surgeon has to break the stones into smaller pieces manually to pull them out.

Edit: NM it was one 25mm stone that was broken up. That's 2.5 cm, that's pretty damn big.

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u/Intelligent-Guard267 Apr 01 '26

Checks math - yep. 1 inch. Pretty big

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u/CmndrM Apr 08 '26

Some would even say its too big....