CT findings following thoracic aortic surgery.

@article{Sundaram2007CTFF,
  title={CT findings following thoracic aortic surgery.},
  author={Baskaran Sundaram and Leslie E. Quint and Himanshu J Patel and G. Michael Deeb},
  journal={Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc},
  year={2007},
  volume={27 6},
  pages={
          1583-94
        }
}
  • B. Sundaram, L. Quint, +1 author G. Deeb
  • Published 1 November 2007
  • Medicine
  • Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc
Complications following thoracic aortic graft surgery are rare. They are not always clinically apparent and may occasionally be detected at computed tomography (CT) even in asymptomatic patients. Normal postoperative findings that may simulate complications include graft kinks, graft side branches, felt pledgets or rings, small amounts of low-attenuation perigraft material, native aortic wraps, and bovine pericardial wraps. Postoperative complications include anastomotic dehiscence and graft… 
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