Abstract:With regard to the question concerning the origin of the right pulmonary artery in our last case, this artery arose from just behind the ascending aorta, as demonstrated in the 3-dimensional computed tomography scan (Figure 2 in our article). In the other cases, the right pulmonary artery could have arisen from the right posterolateral aspect of the ascending aorta from the operative findings. However, no computed tomography scan was obtained for these cases for us to show.As we have described in this article,… Show more
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