Mirror image arrangement of the abdominal organs with a left-sided morphologically normal heart.
A twenty year old man is described who has a left-sided liver, a single right-sided spleen, an anomalous inferior vena cava with azygos continuation, and a morphologically normal left-sided heart. These findings emphasise the pitfalls in predicting cardiac abnormalities from other aberrations of anatomical situs.
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Department of Internal Medicine, One Military Hospital, Voortrekkerhoogte, South Africa.
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D000328:Adult; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007979:Levocardia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008099:Liver / Q000002:abnormalities*; D008297:Male; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities*