[Dysphagia lusoria].

In a 44-year-old female patient with dysphagia persisting for 30 years it was found that the cause of the complaints was an abnormal insertion of the right subclavian artery (arteria lusoria). After simple severing of the artery without reconstruction dysphagia disappeared, the right upper extremity is not ischaemic and does not handicap the patient. So far symptoms of the steal syndrome did not develop.