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Figure 1:
(A) A preoperative 3-dimensional-reconstructed computed tomographic image showing an anomalous double LBCV. (B) The intraoperative image showing the inferior LBCV passing across the heart in front of the pericardium in a 79-year-old woman undergoing aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting. LBCV: left brachiocephalic vein.
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Tetsuro Uchida, Yoshinori Kuroda and Mitsuaki Sadahiro contributed equally to this work.
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