| Literature DB >> 29997999 |
Diego Gonzalez-Rivas1,2, Kostis Soultanis2, Hui Zheng2, Yuming Zhu2.
Abstract
Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is an extremely rare condition where the major organs are reversed or mirrored from their usual positions. There are few reports in the literature describing thoracoscopic major surgery in patients with this unusual anomaly. Here we report a 48-year old female with two small early stage lung cancer lesions located in the apicoposterior segment of the right upper lobe and in the dorsal segment of the right lower lobe. The patient underwent a uniportal approach through a 3 cm incision and combined anatomic segmentectomies in the upper and lower lobes. The postoperative course was uneventful. This is the first report of an anatomic segmentectomy in a patient with a situs inversus condition.Entities:
Keywords: Situs inversus; anatomic segmentectomy; lung cancer; single port segmentectomy; uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (uniportal VATS)
Year: 2018 PMID: 29997999 PMCID: PMC6006089 DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2018.04.97
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Thorac Dis ISSN: 2072-1439 Impact factor: 2.895