title: Laparoscope-assisted distal gastrectomy for early gastric cancer in a 76-year-old man with situs inversus totalis.
abstract: We report a case of a 76-year-old man with situs inversus totalis (SIT) who developed early gastric cancer. He was successfully treated by laparoscope-assisted distal gastrectomy for the gastric cancer. This case suggests that patients with SIT with malignancy could also undergo laparoscopic surgery. To the best of our knowledge, no case of laparoscopic surgery for malignant neoplasms associated with SIT has been reported in the English literature. We therefore believe this is the first case report.
authors.affiliation: Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan. shohei@surg2.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Orita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamaoka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mii
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hashizume
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D000368:Aged; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000601:surgery*; D012857:Situs Inversus / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery