Surgical challenges during open pancreaticoduodenectomy in a patient with situs inversus totalis: A rare case report and literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Situs inversus totalis is a rare congenital anomaly defined by a mirror-image of thoracic and abdominal viscera. Discrete cases of situs inversus totalis and its association with gastrointestinal tumors have been reported. Here we report the first case of pancreatic-head serous cystadenoma in patient with situs inversus totalis.

Case presentation

A 68-year-old woman presented with an abdominal mass that appeared four months ago. She was otherwise asymptomatic and her physical examination was unremarkable. Chest X-ray revealed dextrocardia. CT scan confirmed situs inversus totalis with an irregular, clear border, heterogenous pancreatic-head mass measuring 11 cm. Laboratory studies were within the reference range and pancreatic tumor markers were normal. We perform

SUBMITTER: Jomaa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9577509 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature