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Descriptor English: Situs Inversus
Descriptor Spanish: Situs Inversus
Descriptor situs inversus
Scope note: Anomalía congénita en la que los órganos del TORAX y del ABDOMEN tienen localizaciones opuestas respecto de sus posiciones normales (situs solitus), debido a transposición lateral. Normalmente, el ESTÓMAGO y el BAZO están a la izquierda, el HÍGADO a la derecha, los los tres lóbulos del pulmón derecho se encuentran a la derecha y los dos lóbulos del pulmón izquierdo a la izquierda. Situs inversus presenta un patrón familiar y se ha relacionado con diversos genes vinculados a las proteínas asociadas a los microtúbulos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Situs Inversus
Descriptor French: Situs inversus
Entry term(s): Inversus, Situs
Situs Inversus Viscerum
Tree number(s): C16.131.810
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012857
Scope note: A congenital abnormality in which organs in the THORAX and the ABDOMEN are opposite to their normal positions (situs solitus) due to lateral transposition. Normally the STOMACH and SPLEEN are on the left, LIVER on the right, the three-lobed right lung is on the right, and the two-lobed left lung on the left. Situs inversus has a familial pattern and has been associated with a number of genes related to microtubule-associated proteins.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 13238
Unique ID: D012857
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Situs Inversus - Preferred
Concept UI M0019909
Scope note A congenital abnormality in which organs in the THORAX and the ABDOMEN are opposite to their normal positions (situs solitus) due to lateral transposition. Normally the STOMACH and SPLEEN are on the left, LIVER on the right, the three-lobed right lung is on the right, and the two-lobed left lung on the left. Situs inversus has a familial pattern and has been associated with a number of genes related to microtubule-associated proteins.
Preferred term Situs Inversus
Entry term(s) Inversus, Situs
Situs Inversus Viscerum



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