Case Report

A patient with situs inversus totalis and lung cancer—a rare combination

Konstantinos Grapatsas, Anastasios Piyis, Konstantinos Neofotistos, Zoi Tsilogianni, Paul Zarogoulidis, Dimitrios Paliouras, Apostolos Gogakos, Nikolaos Barbetakis, John Organtzis, Ioannis Kioumis, Konstantinos Porpodis, Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt, Ilias Karapantzos, Chrysa Karapantzou, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Aggeliki Rapti, Charalampos Charalampidis, Konstantinos Kaselouris

Abstract

Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a rare clinical entity which is characterized by a complete reverse anatomy of the thoracic cage and abdomen. There are a few reports of patients with SIT and lung cancer. The number of the cases that have been treated surgically is also very small. We report a case of an 80 years old patient who underwent left lower lobectomy after staging with uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and mediastinoscopy.

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