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Mirror image arrangement of the abdominal organs with a left-sided morphologically normal heart.
  1. L V Sacks,
  2. I R Rifkin
  1. Department of Internal Medicine, One Military Hospital, Voortrekkerhoogte, South Africa.

    Abstract

    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.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.58.5.534

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