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Gita N Mody1, Matthew Janko2, Viren Vasudeva3
1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 23, 2016
Abstract:
Endovascular stent graft placement has been used to facilitate resection of tumors invading the thoracic aorta. Here we describe the first use of an aortic endograft for preoperative protection of the thoracic descending aorta before left pneumonectomy for a primary lung cancer invading the thoracic spine and thoracic descending aorta.
