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Right Aortic Arch with Aberrant Left Subclavian Artery Symptomatic in Adulthood

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Annals of Vascular Surgery

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Congenital malformations of the aortic arch are rarely found in adulthood. We describe three cases of right aortic arch with aberrant left subclavian artery with left-sided ligamentum arteriosum presenting in adulthood as vascular rings with symptoms of tracheal compression. Varying presentation as well as surgical strategy which was individualized according to the pathological anatomy of each case are discussed.

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  1. First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

    Abul Hasan Muhammad Bashar PhD, Teruhisa Kazui PhD, Katsushi Yamashita PhD, Hitoshi Terada PhD, Naoki Washiyama PhD & Kazuchika Suzuki PhD

  2. First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1, Handayama, 431-3192, Hamamatsu City, Japan

    Abul Hasan Muhammad Bashar PhD

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Bashar, A.H.M., Kazui, T., Yamashita, K. et al. Right Aortic Arch with Aberrant Left Subclavian Artery Symptomatic in Adulthood. Ann Vasc Surg 20, 529–532 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10016-006-9033-z

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