A 64-year-old man presented with prolonged history of intermittent dysphagia with sensation of food sticking at his upper chest. Physical examination was unremarkable, and an upper endoscopy did not reveal the underlying cause. On computed tomography scan of thorax, an aberrant right subclavian artery was seen coursing posterior to the esophagus resulting in external compression, which is a typ...

an example not only of dysphagia consequent upon left atrial enlargement but of ossophageal and systemic arterial erosion from the same cause and as a mode of death. Since dysphagia is further qualified in other circumstances-as dysphagia nervosa or dysphagia lusoria-it is suggested that, when left atrial enlargement is of such proportion that dysphagia results, this circumstance be called dysp...

It was observed by us in the dissection hall that arteria profunda femoris, the largest and most important branch of the femoral artery, presents a good deal of variations regarding its origin and distribution in various individuals, and this led us to the detailed study of this artery in one hundred thighs in the Anatomy Department of the Medical College, Amritsar. The usually described course...

Presentamos el caso de una mujer de 71 años diabética, hipertensa, dislipémica y con antecedente de cardiopatía isquémica, que en los 7 meses previos a la primera consulta había presentado varios episodios de menos de 2 semanas de duración de dolor pulsátil laterocervical derecho irradiado a región auricular, con edema en la zona dolorosa e hipersensibilidad a la palpación. No había presentado ...