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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1969;12(12):715-720. Published online December 31, 1969.

An Autopsy Case of Situs Inversus Viscerum Totalis

Kyung Ja Lee¹, Jong Hyuk Lee¹, Yong Kil Lee¹, Sang Jhoo Lee¹, Je G. Chi², Geung Hwan Ahn²

¹Department of pediatrics, Han-Il Hospital
²Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University

Abstract

An 2. 7 kg weighing male baby was born with a large pedunculated mass in the occipital area of the head. The baby expired on 21st day after birth, due probably to infected cephalocele with diarrheal disorder. Postmortem examination revealed the following: All thoraco-abdominal viscera and vessels were in the mirror-image position of the normal. The heart was in the right hemithorax in the mirror-image position of the normal, the cardiac axis directing right-lateral wards. On section the heart revealed an interventricular septal defect at the pars membrancea in dextrocardiac position, and sinistra position of the aorta was also present. There found an oval defect in upper occipital bone, through which the cerebral mass of 7X6X6 cm in size was herniated being accompanied with investing meninges.

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