Multi-detector computed tomography in the diagnosis and management of acute aortic syndromes

Figure 7 A 37-year-old gentleman with Marfan’s syndrome and a type A aortic dissection. The axial image at the level of the left atrium shows an intimointimal intussusception type dissection in the descending thoracic aorta with the true lumen surrounded by the false lumen (A and B; intimomedial flap highlighted by the arrows).