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The frozen elephant trunk: An interesting hybrid endovascular-surgical technique to treat complex pathologies of the thoracic aorta  Florian S. Schoenhoff,

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1 The frozen elephant trunk: An interesting hybrid endovascular-surgical technique to treat complex pathologies of the thoracic aorta  Florian S. Schoenhoff, MD, Juerg Schmidli, MD, Friedrich S. Eckstein, MD, Pascal A. Berdat, MD, Franz F. Immer, MD, Thierry P. Carrel, MD  Journal of Vascular Surgery  Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages (March 2007) DOI: /j.jvs Copyright © 2007 The Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 E-vita open hybrid prosthesis (Jotec, Hechingen, Germany) made out of a proximal woven polyester tube graft and a distal self-expandable nitinol stent graft. Journal of Vascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © 2007 The Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Aneurysm of the ascending aorta, arch, and descending aorta with a diameter of 60 mm in the first patient. Journal of Vascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © 2007 The Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions

4 Fig 3 Contrast-enhanced computed tomographic scan after implantation of the frozen elephant trunk. Journal of Vascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © 2007 The Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions


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