Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2021)

Left‐sided appendicitis due to situs inversus totalis

  • Yuki Otsuka,
  • Ruiko Hayashi,
  • Shinichi Urano,
  • Akihide Yashima,
  • Yasuo Nanba,
  • Fumio Otsuka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3734
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
pp. 1791 – 1792

Abstract

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Abstract Situs inversus may mimic the pain localization of acute abdomen. In patients with acute abdomen, especially elderly patients who are medically healthy, physicians should cautiously diagnose the etiology of acute abdomen in combination with imaging studies.

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