Aesthetic surgery has gained substantial popularity over the last decade due to enormous projections in the media. These procedures have not only attracted Westerners but also the Middle Eastern and Saudi populations. Situs inversus is an extremely rare congenital anomaly with an incidence of 1 in 10,000 live births. Its association with Kartagener syndrome, cardiac anomalies, asplenia, and vertebral column deformities are well documented in the literature. A wide range of procedures have been described for people with situs inversus with special technical considerations, but an aesthetic procedure has never been published for them before this report. We provide a brief report of a 53-year-old woman with a known case of situs inversus who underwent a body contouring procedure.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11649279 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000006348 | DOI Listing |
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