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Images in cardio-thoracic surgery

Chronic type A dissection of the ascending aorta

^a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Strasse 7, D-24105 Kiel, Germany
^b Department of Radiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Received 7 April 2008; accepted 26 May 2008.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +49 431 597 4581; fax: +49 431 597 4402. (Email: Rene.Quaden@uksh-kiel.de).

Key Words: Type A dissection • Chronic • CT • Cardiac surgery

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A chronic type A dissection was observed in a 56-year-old woman during a diagnostic CT imaging (Fig. 1A–C). Typical pain occurred more than . . . [Full Text of this Article]