[The surgical correction of the right aortic arch with aberrant left subclavian artery and left ligamentum arteriosum--a rare case from clinical practice].

Reports on the surgical management of the vascular ring formed by the right aortic arch with aberrant retroesophageal left subclavian artery and left ligamentum arteriosum are relatively few. The authors present a case of a thirty-three-year old woman with cough, dysphonia and stridor without dysphagia. Surgical management which was performed through a bilateral thoracotomy with transversal sternotomy, included division of the ligamentum arteriosum and of the aberrant left subclavian artery and suture of the latter. There was no need to resect the Kommerell's diverticulum, because of lack of any dysphagia despite of the well documented severe compression of the esophagus. The authors experience proved that in difficult cases the bilateral thoracotomy and transversal sternotomy is an useful approach to perform complete surgical repair of this abnormality.