Open AccessSITUS INVERSUS;
Author(s) -
Rahul Sharma,
Gaurav Agnihotri
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2012.19.01.1958
Subject(s) - situs inversus , medicine , right common carotid artery , internal carotid artery , common carotid artery , anatomy , aorta , carotid arteries , aortic arch , cardiology
An unusual case of situs inversus was observed during routine postmortem of a 60 year old male subject at Government medicalcollege, Amritsar, Punjab, India. On the right side the common carotid artery was found to be absent. The right external carotid artery arosedirectly from the arch of aorta. The left internal carotid artery had a wide diameter and bifurcated . The right subdivision crossed overcompensating for absent right internal carotid artery. The compensation of absent internal carotid artery in situs inversus makes present caseunique and such variation has thus far never been reported in literature.The ontogeny and clinical implications of the variation have beendiscussed.