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Situs inversus totalis in a wistar albino rat
Bülent Salman1*, Tugan Tezcaner1,
Bahadır Ege1, Mustafa Kerem1, Çağdaş
Oto2 and Tonguç Utku Yılmaz1
1Gazi
University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of General
Surgery, Ankara,
Turkey.
2Ankara
University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of
Anatomy, Ankara,
Turkey.
*Corresponding
author. E-mail:
bsalman@gazi.edu.tr,
dr.bsalman@yahoo.com. Tel: +90(0)312 2024196. Fax-1:
+90(0)312 2124647, Fax-2: +90(0)312 2230528
Accepted 14 December, 2009. |
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Situs inversus totalis is a
rare congenital condition in which the major organs are
reversed in relation to their normal position. A
12-weeks-old Wistar albino rat that had no clinical signs of
disease was examined macroscopically. It was observed that
the location of the heart, liver, spleen and stomach was the
opposite of their normal position and that the aorta and
caudal vena cava were in a reverse orientation to each
other. This case report describes the anatomical features of
situs inversus totalis observed in this rat.
Key
words:
Situs inversus, wistar albino rat. |
