Wolff Leoniek D, Nijboer Mijntje N, Vd Wetering Jacqueline, Dor Frank J M F
Department of Surgery, Division of HPB and Transplantation Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Oxf Med Case Reports. 2017 Apr 4;2017(4):omx012. doi: 10.1093/omcr/omx012. eCollection 2017 Apr.
Heterotaxia syndromes are rare birth defects which can result in developmental malformations. A 64-year-old woman presented to the hospital for preoperative screening for kidney donation; during which she was found to have no gallbladder and no spleen, without any signs of surgical removal. This could be a new description of a heterotaxia syndrome.