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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:137-138
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Falk CVRC, 300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford, CA, 94305

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This excellent review of a 7-year experience by Girardi and colleagues focuses on the management of distal arch disease in patients surgically treated for descending thoracic and type I and II thoraco-abdominal aneurysms. Excluded from this analysis are 29 patients managed with profound hypothermic circulatory arrest whose arch . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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