A Case of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Situs Inversus Totalis

Tatsuyuki Seshimo, Masao Ito, Kazunobu Monden and Tomoo Mizukami

Department of Surgery, Unitika Central Hospital

A 70-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of an increase of the AFP level in a blood test. Abdominal CT film showed situs inversus totalis and a tumor lesion about 2 cm in diameter in the lateral segment of the liver. Angiography of the superior mesenteric artery revealed the variant common hepatic artery rising from the superior mesenteric artery to supply the liver.
Partial hepatectomy was performed. Herein we reported the sixth case of hepatocellular carcinoma with situs inversus totalis in Japan.

Key words
situs inversus totalis, hepatocellular carcinoma, anomaly of the common hepatic artery

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Tatsuyuki Seshimo Department of Surgery, Unitika Central Hospital 24-1 Uji-Umonji, Uji, 611-0021 JAPAN

Accepted
June 22, 1999

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