I often skip breakfast and have an early lunch because I wake up late; recently, I found small gallstones. Does skipping breakfast create conditions for gallstone formation? (Loan, TP HCM)
Ms. Thanh, 55, experienced upper abdominal pain above her navel; doctors discovered a large cyst causing her common bile duct to dilate six times its normal size, leading to robotic surgery for its removal.
Mr. Van, 99, experienced a recurrence of bile duct infection caused by common bile duct stones, treated by doctors who endoscopically placed a stent to clear the obstructed bile duct.
