A Case Report of Complete Situs Inversus

Abstract

A 45 year male while being dissected during undergraduate teaching was discovered as a case of complete situs inversus, a_ rare congenital abnormality. The thorax and the abdomen dissection revealed a complete mirror image of the normal visceral arrangement. The heart possessed an atrial septal defect. The abdomen revealed enlarged spleen, liver and gall bladder. The gall bladder was full of stones, with stones present in the common bile duct, too. The left kidney had an accessory renal artery supplying it. Our aim is to describe the anatomic relations of the viscera in the situs inversus, so as to decrease the incidence of the mishappenings in the clinical practice and to correlate the anomaly embryologically, which in this case seems to be due to the defect in the lateralization.

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