CASE REPORT article
Front. Oncol.
Sec. Gastrointestinal Cancers: Colorectal Cancer
Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1613470
Minimally Invasive Surgical Treatment for Sigmoid Colon Cancer in a Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis: A Case Report
Provisionally accepted
- The Sixth affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen Universitu YueXi campus, XIn Yi, China
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Response to editor： 1. Please add appropriate references to support these sentences."In recent years, case reports have documented colorectal cancer in SIT patients, including those affecting the ascending colon, transverse colon, and descending colon. However, to the best of our knowledge, reports of SIT patients with sigmoid colon cancer undergoing laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery with comprehensive preoperative preparation, such as CT based three dimensional vascular and colonic reconstruction, remain exceedingly rare."Response: Thank you for your kindly remind. We have added References 4-7 to support these sentences.Response: Thank you for your kindly remind. We have added the BMI of the patient in Page5, Line19.3. Please describe the surgical technique as follows within the case description after the CT findings without a separate heading: "Preoperative contrast-enhanced CT and 3D laparoscopy confirmed complete mirrorimage transposition of the thoracic and abdominal organs, including the liver on the left
Keywords: Sigmoid colon cancer, Situs inversus totalis, Laparoscopy, Surgery, Technology
Received: 17 Apr 2025; Accepted: 25 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhang, He, Huang, Chen, Pan, YONGLE and Peng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
CHEN YONGLE, The Sixth affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen Universitu YueXi campus, XIn Yi, China
Yi Peng, The Sixth affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen Universitu YueXi campus, XIn Yi, China
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