Chapter 6 The cardiovascular system/Fig 6.33.jpg

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The ascending arch and descending aorta from a 26-year-old man, who died of a dissecting aneurysm. The transverse intimal tear is just above the aortic valve and the cause is the narrowing (coarctation) at the aortic arch.