1. Spinal Cord Perfusion and Protection During Descending Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Aortic Surgery: The Collateral Network Concept 
Randall B. Griepp, MD, Eva B. Griepp, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 83, Issue 2, Pages S865-S869 (February 2007)
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2. Fig 1
This figure displays, in chronologic order, the extent of segmental artery sacrifice in each of 100 patients operated on from October 2002 to December *The patients who died. **Patients who sustained paraplegia. The shaded area corresponds to segmental pairs between T7 and L1. (Reprinted from Etz CD, et al. Thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair: is reimplantation of spinal cord arteries a waste of time? Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:1670–7 [10], with permission.)
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