What did you eat? Why do you have stomach stones?

Medical guidance: Ma Jinping, Chief Physician of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhongshan First Hospital

Medical expertise: good at laparoscopic radical gastrectomy for gastroenteropancreatic surgery, gastrointestinal stromal tumor resection, laparoscopic radical surgery for colon cancer, rectal cancer, and bowel cancer function-preserving radical surgery ; Good at surgical treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the pancreas; good at bariatric and metabolic surgery; good at surgery such as pancreaticoduodenectomy, radical resection of middle and lower esophagus, and surgical treatment of benign and malignant tumors of duodenum; familiar with inguinal hernia and incisional hernia Various surgical treatments; extensive clinical experience on common diseases of the anorectum, such as various types of hemorrhoids.

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In some cases, hard solid lumps form in the cavities of some hollow organs in the human body , difficult to discharge, often affecting organ function, this is what we often call “stones”. Common stones include gallstones, kidney stones, ureteral stones and bladder stones; special pancreatic stones can also be formed when the pancreas has chronic inflammation, and even hard-to-dissolve thrombi in arteries and veins can turn into stones and affect blood circulation. Occasionally, stones can also form in the stomach, which we call gastroliths.