1. Laparoscopic hemicolectomy in a patient with situs inversus totalis
- Author
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Yoshinori Tanaka, Masashi Takemura, Shinya Tanimura, Masayuki Higashino, Harushi Osugi, Yushi Fujiwara, and Yosuke Fukunaga
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Laparoscopic surgery ,medicine.medical_specialty ,congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Case Report ,medicine ,otorhinolaryngologic diseases ,Humans ,In patient ,Hemicolectomy ,Laparoscopy ,Colectomy ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,General surgery ,Gastroenterology ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Situs Inversus ,Surgery ,Situs inversus ,Safe operation ,Colonic Neoplasms ,Lymphadenectomy ,Female ,business - Abstract
As among persons with normal anatomy, occasional patients with situs inversus develop malignant tumors. Recently, several laparoscopic operations have been reported in patients with situs inversus. We describe laparoscopic hemicolectomy with radical lymphadenectomy in such a patient. Careful consideration of the mirror-image anatomy permitted safe operation using techniques not otherwise differing from those in ordinary cases. Thus, curative laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer in the presence of situs inversus is feasible and safe.
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- 2007