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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;76:947
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Images in cardiothoracic surgery

Assessment of stent-grafting for aortic dissection using multislice computed tomography

Yoshihiko Kurimoto, MDa*, Naoya Yama, MDb, Kiyofumi Morishita, MDc, Yasufumi Asai, MDa, Tomio Abe, MDc

a Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
b Department of Radiology, Sapporo, Japan
c Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

* Address reprint requests to Dr Kurimoto, Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, South 1 West 16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan
e-mail: kurimoto@sapmed.ac.jp

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A 49-year-old woman was admitted to our department for treatment of chronic type B aortic dissection. Multislice computed tomography (MCT) revealed the maximum diameter of the descending aorta to be 7 cm. Aortography revealed that the entry and reentry sites were 4-cm distal to the left subclavian artery (Fig 1) and near the celiac artery, respectively. The patient, . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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