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The aortic root opened with the cusps removed. The blue line indicates the sinotubular junction. The green line indicates the aortic annulus. The dotted line shows the subvalvular dissection plane. The schematic three-dimensional aortic annular views at the bottom show the cusp insertion points (red line), plane of dissection (thick black line), and the aortic annulus (dotted line) viewed from each sinus
