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Case Reports
. 2012 Dec 11:10:263.
doi: 10.1186/1477-7819-10-263.

Situs inversus totalis with carcinoma of gastric cardia: a case report

Ke Pan  1 , Dewu Zhong, Xiongying Miao, Guoqing Liu, Qunguang Jiang, Yi Liu
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Case Reports

Situs inversus totalis with carcinoma of gastric cardia: a case report

Ke Pan et al. World J Surg Oncol. .

Abstract

Situs inversus is an uncommon anomaly with rare incidence. Some cases of situs inversus totalis have been described with different types of associations. Here we report a case of situs inversus with carcinoma of the gastric cardia.

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Chest X-ray demonstrating dextrocardia.
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