Kartagener's triad, situs inversus, bronchiectasis, and sinusitis; report of a case.

Recent reports4 have stressed the importance of doing bnonchograms and sinus studies on people with situs inversus because of the greater incidence of bnonchiectasis and chronic sinusitis in these people. The incidence of bronchiectasis at Massachusetts General Hospital in 232, 111 admissions was 0.3 per cent as compared to 21.7 per cent in the 23 cases of situs inversus.’ The Mayo Clinic and the State of Wisconsin General Hospital had similar statistics.’ Since Kartagener’s report of 11 cases of bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis and situs inversus there have been a total of 41 cases reported up to 1951. Two more were reported by Gross1 and one by Katz et al4 in 1953.