Author/Authors :
ARDUÇOĞLU MERTER, Ayşe Antalya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi - Genel Cerrahi Kliniği, TÜRKİYE , BİLECİK, Tuna Antalya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi - Genel Cerrahi Kliniği, TÜRKİYE , MAYIR, Burhan Antalya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi - Genel Cerrahi Kliniği, TÜRKİYE , DOĞAN, Uğur Antalya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi - Genel Cerrahi Kliniği, TÜRKİYE , KOÇ, Ümit Antalya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi - Genel Cerrahi Kliniği, TÜRKİYE , ORUÇ, Tahir Antalya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi - Genel Cerrahi Kliniği, TÜRKİYE
Abstract :
Laparoscopic appendectomy is a standart procedure for acute appendicitis. Situs inversus is a rare condition in which visceral organs are reversedor mirrored from their normal position. A 19 year-old female patient presented with an acute abdomenal pain and nausea that started one day ago. In x-ray film and ultrasonography, situs inversus totalis and acute appendicitis were detected. aparoscopic appendectomy was completed with success. No intraoperative or postoperative complications occured. Acute appendicitis can be diagnosed accurately by use of medical scans in acute abdominal cases which are not first identified as situs inversus totalis. Medical scans should certainly be used on patients who are having left lower quadrant pain and whose acute abdomen diagnosis can not be clearly defined. Laparoscopic surgery is a safe and easy method be applied by experienced surgeons to situs inversus cases
