Egg sized gallstone
Egg sized gallstone discovered and removed from a patient!! The source of one woman two decades of abdominal distress was discovered to be no other than a gallstone with the pain starting in 1992 while she was pregnant with her first child. The gallstone is pictured and measured about six centimetres lengthwise. The patient never talked to a family physician, she had just been taking pain medication. However, when she sought medical advice at St. Paul hospital, an ultrasound was ordered and performed, showing a large gallstone, measuring possibly 3.2 centimetres across. She went in for laparoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive surgery that involves making four small openings in the abdomen, rather than one larger incision. However, in this case, the surgeon noted there was a lot of tissue around the gallbladder that he had to work to get through, as the body tried to repair the source of distress, noting that the organ was very tense and distended. As he normally does when this is an issue, he tried to decompress, using a needle to inflate the abdominal hole and make the gallbladder looser. Since the gallbladder purpose is to collect and concentrate bile produced by the liver, bile normally is released, but in this case, nothing came out and the gallbladder would not decompress. When they opened up the gallbladder, they surprisingly found a gallstone so large, with the measurement showing that the gallstone was about six centimetres across. Just like a regular Easter egg. Although risk factors include being female, over 40 and being overweight, anyone, of either sex or even at younger ages, can contract gallstones. If people are experiencing frequent abdominal pain, particularly on their right side upper abdomen, gallstones could be an issue.
But the question is that, how she had tolerated the pain along two decades????
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