Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in a Patient with Inversion of the Abdominal Cavity

Abstract

Situs viscerum inversus totalis is a rare condition in which organs are transposed from the normal side to the opposite side in the abdominal and chest cavity. It occurs in a ratio from 1:5000 to 1:20000. In this case report, a case of a 50-yearold man who was diagnosed with the symptomatic presence of gallstones with the usage of ultrasound. The patient underwent the laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the surgical procedure lasted for 90 minutes, it was successfully completed and the patient was discharged on the first postoperative day.