In rare surgery, Apollo doctors remove Ectopic kidney stone
Kakinada: The expert doctors at Apollo hospitals here have performed a rare and yet critical surgery for the removal of a stone in the Ectopic kidney on a patient successfully.
I V Ramana General Manager of the hospital told media persons here on Saturday, that the patient Neppali Balaramaiah (70) from Nethivaripalem village of Prakasam district was admitted to the hospital with severe pain on April 21 and the Urologists Dr. Ch Karunakara Reddy and Dr. J. Manikanthan had examined him and after clinical tests diagnosed him as having ectopic kidney and the pain was due to formation of stones inside the kidney.
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Ectopic kidneys instead of normal place situates in another area, which would be there to one in 3,000 people. As it requires special skills and attention, the team of doctors had performed a key hole surgery with minimum cutting on the body that too with almost without pain on the patient and successfully removed the stones on April 22.
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