A Case of Right Inguinal Richter Hernia Associated With Heterotaxia

Abstract

We report on a case of Richter hernia associated with heterotaxia in a 55-year-old woman who visited with the chief complaint of right lower abdominal pain. At the first visit, tenderness at the ileocecal region. Blumberg sign, and tenderness at the right upper region of the pubic bone were noted, but no tumor was palpated. A diagnosis of

Ascending Colon Cancer with Hepatic Metastasis and Cholecystolithiasis in a Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis Without Any Expression of UVRAG mRNA: Report of a Case

“…Situs inversus totalis reportedly predominates in a ratio of 4-5 to 1. 8 Several theories about the cause of this condition have been proposed: the all-organ transposition theory that disarrangement of the main organ-primordia in the early stage of fetal development induces organ inversion, 9 the uneven warming theory that warming of part of the fetus causes organ transposition, the twins theory based on the frequent observation of organ transposition in one of the fetal duplications, 9 and the embryonal rotation theory that a reversed rotation of the developing embryo may induce this condition. 10 No theory has yet been established.…”