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SITUS INVERSUS TOTALIS: A SURVEY OF LATERALITY AND SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE FREQUENCY OF MENTAL DISORDER

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.9.884

The findings of this study did not support the hypothesis that situs inversus might predispose to left-handedness. However, the incidental finding of a high frequency of mental disorders in the histories of the patients studied adds evidence to that from previous authors that situs inversus totalis may predispose to such disorders.

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