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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Box 800679, Charlottesville, VA 22908

(Email: jak3r@virginia.edu).

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Manninen and colleagues [1] present interesting anatomic data concerning the adequacy of the cerebral circulation after stent graft exclusion of the left subclavian artery. Since the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a device for the endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms, the real world application of this technology has stretched our creativity and imagination. As surgeons we are not inherently used to thinking "destructively," but as we gain experience with the routine exclusion of major . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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