Left-sided Acute Appendicitis with Situs Inversus Totalis: Review of 63 Published Cases and Report of Two Cases

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1422-1428

  Akbulut, Sami ^a   Caliskan, Alper ^a   Ekin, Abdulselam ^a   Yagmur, Yusuf ^a  

^a Diyarbakir Education and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diagnostic dilemma; Left sided acute appendicitis; Midgut malrotation; Mirror image; Situs inversus totalis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SITUS INVERSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SITUS INVERSUS;

EID: 77955845666     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-010-1210-2     Document Type: Article

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