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DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-9910
A Case of Standford Type B Aortic Dissection Involving a Right-Sided Aortic Arch with Mirror-Image Branching and Right-Sided Descending Aorta
Publication History
Publication Date:
31 December 2001 (online)
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Isolated right aortic arch with mirror-image branching is a rare congenital anomaly. To date, no case has been reported for aortic dissection involving a right aortic arch with mirror-image branching. We report here on a case involving a 58-year-old man in whom expanding type B aortic dissection was demonstrated in the right aortic arch with mirror-image branching and a right descending aorta. The patient was successfully treated by interposition of a prosthetic grafr via a right posterolateral thoracotomy approach. We also reviewed the literature.
Key words:
Right-sided aortic arch - Mirror-image - Right-sided descending aorta - Aortic dissection
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Received for Publication: March 7, 2000
Toshio KanedaMD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Kinki University School of Medicine
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Osaka-Sayama
Osaka 589-8511
Japan
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