Incidental finding of situs ambiguus in a middle‐aged woman

Situs ambiguus is a rare congenital abnormality with outcomes ranging from asymptomatic to fatal. Here we present a woman with an incidental finding of situs ambiguus hinted by her chest radiograph. This case highlights the importance of actively seeking diagnosis when right sub‐diaphragmic air is n...

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Autores principales: Huang, Yung‐Chia, Lee, Shih‐Wei, Wu, Shih‐Hsin, Chen, Mei‐Yin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2022
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9385978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992554
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.1018
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author Huang, Yung‐Chia
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description Situs ambiguus is a rare congenital abnormality with outcomes ranging from asymptomatic to fatal. Here we present a woman with an incidental finding of situs ambiguus hinted by her chest radiograph. This case highlights the importance of actively seeking diagnosis when right sub‐diaphragmic air is noted when viewing a chest radiograph.
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spelling pubmed-93859782022-08-19 Incidental finding of situs ambiguus in a middle‐aged woman Huang, Yung‐Chia Lee, Shih‐Wei Wu, Shih‐Hsin Chen, Mei‐Yin Respirol Case Rep Clinical Images Situs ambiguus is a rare congenital abnormality with outcomes ranging from asymptomatic to fatal. Here we present a woman with an incidental finding of situs ambiguus hinted by her chest radiograph. This case highlights the importance of actively seeking diagnosis when right sub‐diaphragmic air is noted when viewing a chest radiograph. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9385978/ /pubmed/35992554 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.1018 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Incidental finding of situs ambiguus in a middle‐aged woman
title_full Incidental finding of situs ambiguus in a middle‐aged woman
title_fullStr Incidental finding of situs ambiguus in a middle‐aged woman
title_full_unstemmed Incidental finding of situs ambiguus in a middle‐aged woman
title_short Incidental finding of situs ambiguus in a middle‐aged woman
title_sort incidental finding of situs ambiguus in a middle‐aged woman
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9385978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992554
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.1018
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