{"title":"Right hemicolectomy in a patient with heterotaxy syndrome","authors":"M. Dewulf, R. Beckers, P. Pletinckx","doi":"10.4103/wjcs.wjcs_11_18","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this communication, we present a first description of right hemicolectomy in a patient with heterotaxy syndrome (HS). A 78-year-old male was admitted to the outpatient clinic with complaints of dysphagia. Diagnostic workup revealed the presence of an esophageal web. On subsequent colonoscopy, a tumoral lesion was found in the ascending colon. Computed tomography scan illustrated abdominal situs ambiguous with right-sided polysplenia, right-sided stomach, and intestinal nonrotation. Furthermore, a preduodenal portal vein, azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava, and hemiazygos continuation of the left renal vein were observed. After careful assessment of the anatomy, a right hemicolectomy with radical lymphadenectomy was performed. HS consists of a rare and complex situs anomaly, with an abnormal arrangement of the thoracic and/or abdominal organs along the left–right axis. To our knowledge, right hemicolectomy has not been described in patients with HS.","PeriodicalId":90396,"journal":{"name":"World journal of colorectal surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"World journal of colorectal surgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/wjcs.wjcs_11_18","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this communication, we present a first description of right hemicolectomy in a patient with heterotaxy syndrome (HS). A 78-year-old male was admitted to the outpatient clinic with complaints of dysphagia. Diagnostic workup revealed the presence of an esophageal web. On subsequent colonoscopy, a tumoral lesion was found in the ascending colon. Computed tomography scan illustrated abdominal situs ambiguous with right-sided polysplenia, right-sided stomach, and intestinal nonrotation. Furthermore, a preduodenal portal vein, azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava, and hemiazygos continuation of the left renal vein were observed. After careful assessment of the anatomy, a right hemicolectomy with radical lymphadenectomy was performed. HS consists of a rare and complex situs anomaly, with an abnormal arrangement of the thoracic and/or abdominal organs along the left–right axis. To our knowledge, right hemicolectomy has not been described in patients with HS.