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Is endovascular stent grafting for descending thoracic aortic disease recommendable in patients with dysphagia?  Sidney Chocron, MD, PhDa, Lucian Stoica,

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1 Is endovascular stent grafting for descending thoracic aortic disease recommendable in patients with dysphagia?  Sidney Chocron, MD, PhDa, Lucian Stoica, MDa, Stephane Koch, MDb, Jean-François Bonneville, MDc, Djamel Kaili, MDa, Bruno Heyd, MD, PhDd, Joseph-Philippe Etievent, MDa  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 124, Issue 6, Pages (December 2002) DOI: /mtc Copyright © 2002 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Fig. 1 Patient 1: left, CT scan before aortic stenting; right, CT scan 45 days later, when the aortoesophageal fistula was diagnosed. Note the retraction of the aneurysm from 94 to 60 mm in diameter. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /mtc ) Copyright © 2002 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

3 Fig. 2 Patient 2: left, CT scan before aortic stenting; right, CT scan 7 days later, when the aortoesophageal fistula was diagnosed. Note the unchanged diameter of the periaortic hematoma. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /mtc ) Copyright © 2002 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

4 Fig. 3 Fibroscopic views of the aortoesophageal fistula in patient 2.
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