Congenital Diverticula of the Aortic Arch

Abstract

DIVERTICULA of the aortic arch are rare congenital anomalies found as a component of vascular rings in infants. They may occur with either a right or a left aortic arch and represent persistence of the contralateral dorsal aortic root¹ (Fig. 1). There are several reports concerning their diagnosis in adults by means of routine roentgenographic studies of the chest.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} However, angiographic studies of such patients have rarely been reported. The purpose of this paper is to describe 4 patients, each referred for the evaluation of a mediastinal mass, in whom angiography demonstrated the presence of an aortic diverticulum. One of . . .