A 45-year-old male patient presented with the complaint of intermittent dysphagia for solids of 10 years duration. Flexible upper gastrointestinal endoscopy performed several times over 10 years had been inconclusive. Barium swallow revealed a posterior indentation of the thoracic part of the oesophagus (Figure 1). On MR angiography an aberrant right subclavian artery arising from the aortic ar...

Aberrant subclavian arteries are congenital vascular anomalies that usually do not cause any symptoms. When symptomatic they are considered as a rare cause of dysphagia. This presentation is known as dysphagia lusoria. They are diagnosed by barium swallow or contrast-enhanced computed tomography, although it may be an incidental finding. Management varies from life modifications and drug therap...

AIM To describe the case history and new histopathological findings of a young woman suffering from moyamoya disease. METHODS The patient underwent brain computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and brain angiography. Vessel samples of a. temporalis superficialis were processed by standard histopathological and immunohistochemical methods by analysis of VEGF, VEGFR and nestin expressio...

In 1794, Bayford described the post-mortem findings of a woman with lifelong dysphagia who eventually died of starvation, caused by oesophageal obstruction.' At post-mortem a right subclavian artery was identified passing aberrantly from a left-sided aortic arch behind the oesophagus, causing the woman's dysphagia. Dr Bayford referred to this extraordinary disposition ofthe right subclavian art...

False aneurysm is a rare cause of non-union of a fracture. Reports have recently been published by Bassett and Houck (1964), Dameron (1964) and Meyer and Slager (1964), in which injury to the arteria profunda femoris or its branches complicated the insertion of screws across the femoral shaft and resulted in the development of false aneurysm. The case reported here complicated intramedullary na...