1. Aortic Root Vasculitis Associated With Cogan's Syndrome
Hrvoje Gasparovic, MD, PhD, Zeljko Djuric, MD, Dubravka Bosnic, MD, Mate Petricevic, MD, Margita Brida, MD, Snjezana Dotlic, MD, Bojan Biocina, MD, PhD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages (July 2011)
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2. Fig 1
Short-axis echocardiographic view of the aortic valve shows failure of cusp apposition (arrow).
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3. Fig 2
Intraoperative photograph shows the retracted aortic valve cusps with a resultant deficiency in central coaptation (arrow).
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4. Fig 3
Aortic wall destruction as evidenced by acute suppurative inflammation interspersed within areas of hemorrhage (original magnification ×50, hematoxylin and eosin stain).
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