Superior vena cava syndrome in a man with situs inversus totalis and left main bronchus cancer (arti
Abstract
Mohammad Hossein Rahimi-Rad1, Ali Eishi2
1Respiratory Medicine division of Department of Medicine
2Hematology & Oncology division of Department of Medicine
Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran
Contact: Mohammad Hossein Rahimi-Rad, rahimirad@umsu.ac.ir,
mohamadrahimirad@gmail.com, Associate Professor of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine division of Department of Medicine, Bronchoscopy Unit, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran; Fax: +98-4413469935
ABSTRACT
Situs inversus (SI), is left to right inversion of internal organs. It may remain unrecognized until discovery during emergency surgery or investigation of symptoms. There are three report of lung cancer with SI in Medline. However search in PubMed by 15 December 2008, there isn't any report of superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) with any benign or malignant disease in patients with SI. We present the case of a 59 year old man with small cell carcinoma in left main bronchus presented with SVCS. Chest radiography and contrast enhanced CT scan confirmed SI with compression left side located superior vena cava with left lung small cell carcinoma. To our knowledge, here,
we present the first case of SVCS with SI.
Key words: situs inversus; situs ambiguous; superior vena cava syndrome; lung cancer