<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zoulamoglou, Menelaos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Flessas, Ioannis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zarokosta, Maria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Piperos, Theodoros</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Papapanagiotou, Ioannis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Birbas, Konstantinos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Konstantinou, Evangelos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mariolis-Sapsakos, Theodoros</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Left-sided gallbladder (Sinistroposition) encountered during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A rare case report and review of the literature.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Int J Surg Case Rep</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Int J Surg Case Rep</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">31</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">65-67</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">INTRODUCTION: True Left-sided gallbladder (LSG) is a rare anatomical variation with a prevalence of 0.3%. Mainly discovered during the operation, its surgical approach in the laparoscopic setting may be challenging even for an experienced surgeon.

PRESENTATION OF CASE: LSG was unexpectedly discovered in a young man during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. There were no pre-operative indications of this sinistroposition. The laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed with minor surgical modifications and it was uneventful. A meticulous review of recent literature about LSGs was conducted as well.

DISCUSSION: LSG is a scarce anatomical aberration that is difficultly identified pre-operatively. Surgeons should be aware of this aberration and of its accompanying anatomical variations in order to perform a safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

CONCLUSION: Surgeons, by placing the patient to left-side up position, are able to expose the Calot's triangle and possible accompanying anatomical anomalies and thus perform a safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy without difficult surgical modifications.</style></abstract><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28110174?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>