Open AccessLaparoscopic colon resection in patients with situs inversus totalis: Is it the same operation as in patients without situs inversus totalis?
Author(s) -
Önder Karabay,
Birgül Gürbüz,
Serkan Zenger,
Emre Balık,
Dursun Buğra
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of minimal access surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0972-9941
pISSN - 1998-3921
DOI - 10.4103/jmas.jmas_13_18
Subject(s) - situs inversus , medicine , diverticulitis , surgery , laparoscopy , laparoscopic surgery , sigmoid colon , resection , general surgery , rectum
Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a rare condition. In this case, a patient who underwent laparoscopic anterior resection for repeated sigmoid colon diverticulitis with SIT was presented. Laparoscopy surgery in patients with this condition has some important technical differences than standard laparoscopic procedures. Therefore, it may be more appropriate to request surgical experience to perform safe laparoscopic surgery in patients with SIT.