1. Staged repair of extensive aortic aneurysms
Anthony L Estrera, MD, Charles C Miller, PhD, Eyal E Porat, MD, Tam T.T Huynh, MD, Anders Winnerkvist, MD, Hazim J Safi, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 74, Issue 5, Pages S1803-S1805 (November 2002)
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2. Fig 1
The elephant trunk technique. (A) Preoperative extensive aortic aneurysm. (B) Stage one repair of ascending aorta and arch. (C) Stage two complete graft replacement.
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3. Fig 2
Stage two repair during visceral cooling and reimplantation of visceral arteries after proximal anastomosis of second stage graft to elephant trunk.
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4. Fig 3
Staging and disposition of the patients who underwent the conventional elephant trunk technique.
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5. Fig 4
Comparison of results in patients who completed stage one and stage two and results in nonreturning patients. Numbers near each line represent sample sizes at base line, year 1, year 3, and at the last patient death. Follow-up extends to 9.4 years in the completed patients and to 9.5 years in the nonreturning patients.
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