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Aortoscopy: a less invasive intraoperative method to assess the aortic valve
Eduardo A Tovar, MD, Jon R Sherman, MD, David M Weinberg, MD, Yonghun C Suh, MD, Ramesh H Rathod, MD, Alan Borsari, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 73, Issue 1, Pages (January 2002) DOI: /S (01)
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Fig 1 Aortoscopic picture of a trileaflet aortic valve without evidence of commissural fusion or calcification. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery , DOI: ( /S (01) )
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Fig 2 Noncoronary cusp elevated by a probe reveals a thick calcified area on the ventricular surface (arrow). The other two leaflets appear normal. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery , DOI: ( /S (01) )
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Fig 3 Torn commissural attachment of the noncoronary cusp (arrow) in an otherwise normally appearing aortic valve. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery , DOI: ( /S (01) )
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