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Surgical clip for compression of the aortic wall during gluing
T Sakamoto1, H Arai, M Sunamori
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|November 14, 1997
Abstract:
An acrylic clip was developed to compress the dissected aortic wall during gluing. These small instruments have a concave-convex contact face adjusted to the most common graft size. There are several advantages to this method of treatment of acute aortic dissection.