Association between types of abdominopelvic cancer in patients with situs inversus total: Systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Situs inversus is a rare congenital anatomical variant that involves a group of anomalies regarding the arrangement of intrathoracic and intraabdominal organs. Being able to find in the abdominal region the liver, gallbladder, inferior vena cava, and head of the pancreas and ascending colon on the left side of the abdomen, while on the right side there is the spleen, the stomach, the body of the pancreas, the ligament of Treitz, descending colon among others. In this same way, the thoracic organs, lungs and heart, are changed in their position in a mirror translocation.

Methods

We systematically searched MEDLINE, Web of Science, Google Scholar, CINAHL, Scopus, and LILACS; the search strategy included a combination of the following terms: "Situs inversus," "Situs i

SUBMITTER: Valenzuela-Fuenzalida JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11309613 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature