Tortoise has 'tennis ball-sized' bladder stone removed

At a glanceThe tortoise, from Penzance in Cornwall, was operated on by two surgeonsAlex GreenAn 82-year-old tortoise has undergone surgery in Cornwall to remove a bladder stone roughly the size of a tennis ball.

Dr Hoferica said he discovered the large mass using an X-ray and removed it with the help of Dr Medina - an advanced exotic pet practitioner from Penbode Vets in Bude - by cutting a hole in her shell. "Joey presented herself as one of the tortoises that was sort of becoming a bit more lethargic, not really feeling herself, not walking as much as normal - and those are usually the tell-tale signs that something's wrong or something's painful in tortoises."

Dr Hoferica said to compare, it would have been like a human having a bladder stone roughly the size of a cantaloupe.Joey the tortoise had to have a segment of the underside of her shell cut out to remove the stone

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