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Chest x-ray showing extreme dissection of the aorta (arrows)
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Coronal reformatted image, demonstrating the dissection of the aortic arch, involving the innominate and left common carotid arteries. (Complete arrows show false lumens and head arrows show true lumens)
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End-to-side anastomosis of the innominate (black arrow) and left common carotid arteries (white arrow) to the ascending aorta
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For the left common carotid artery, a 12 gel-sealed tube was anastomosed end to side to the ascending aorta graft and thereafter end to end to the left common carotid artery without cardiopulmonary bypass (Figure 3).