Clinical aspects of defects in the determination of laterality.

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Of individuals in the human population, 99.99% have developed identical thoracoabdominal asymmetry with the cardiac apex, a bilobed lung, the stomach, and the spleen on the left side of the midline, and the vena cavae, a trilobed lung, the appendix, and the larger liver lobe on the right. This arrangement of organs is situs solitus. Occasionally, individuals have a complete, mirror-image reversal of this...

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