FATE OF RIB NOTCHING AFTER CORRECTION OF AORTIC COARCTATION
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Involution of aneurysmal collateral arteries after correction of aortic coarctation.
A 47 year-old man with aortic coarctation had undergone extra-anatomic bypass through a left thoracotomy. He presented 10 years later with uncontrolled arterial hypertension due to residual aortic coarctation, graft obstruction and multiple collateral artery aneurysms between the subclavian artery and the aorta. He underwent extra-anatomic correction between the ascending aorta to descending ao...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Roentgenology
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0361-803X,1546-3141
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.106.1.21