Erratum to: Surg Radiol Anat (2017) 39:559–565 DOI 10.1007/s00276-016-1796-5

The paper reviewed 15 cadaveric studies on the aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA) and reported a prevalence ranging from 0.2 to 13.3% in the general population. Upon publication, the authors found in Table 2, the following two points for correction and four other for clarification:

  1. 1.

    Quain’s report (1844) does not conclude to an exact number of examined specimens and the incidence of 0.4% is not accurate.

  2. 2.

    In Holzapfel’s paper (1899), the incidence of 13.3% is the total incidence obtained from other published cadaveric studies along with a few new additional cases of the author.

  3. 3.

    The studies of Evans (1950) and Zapata et al. (1993) refer to congenital conditions associated with the ARSA. So, the above four mentioned studies are not taken into account in the calculation of the ARSA prevalence in the general population.

  4. 4.

    The false incidences of 0.8 and 0.2% regarding Cairney’s (1925) and Liechty and co-authors’ (1957) reports were corrected to 0.98% (2/203) and 1.3% (13/1000), respectively.

After the above mentioned modifications and corrections, the ARSA appears in 1.2% (43/3532 cases) of the general population (range 0.19–2.5%), as extracted from the 11 cadaveric studies included in Table 2. This incidence confirms our findings (2.2%) in a Greek population.

Table 2 Incidence and Course of the aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA) among different cadaveric and autopsy studies
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