A forty-five-year-old man with significant right upper limb claudication on exertion and associated episodes of dizziness is presented. The patient was found to have occlusion of an aberrant right subclavian artery with a right subclavian steal syndrome. The vascular reconstructive alternatives are discussed in view of this unusual anatomy.
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