Affiliation:
1. Hospital Madre Tereza, Brazil
Abstract
The present report describes the findings at chest computed tomography angiography of a 28-year-old female patient with heterotaxy syndrome. This syndrome consists of a variety of anomalies of position and morphology of thoracoabdominal organs which do not follow the situs solitus or situs inversus arrangement. Imaging studies play a fundamental role in the individualization of the approach to the patient.
Subject
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
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