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Technique and Patient Selection Criteria of Right Anterior Mini-Thoracotomy for Minimal Access Aortic Valve Replacement
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Antegrade deployment of a thoracic endograft using a minithoracotomy
Robert J Feezor1, Thomas M Beaver2
1Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 5, 2014
Abstract:
We report a case of a woman who presented with a symptomatic penetrating aortic ulcer of the descending aorta and prohibitive aortoiliac occlusive disease. The thoracic stent graft was delivered using surgical exposure of the ascending aorta.

