[Abnormal partial pulmonary venous return of the left lung in an adult (author's transl)].

The authors report a case of left-sided abnormal partial pulmonary venous return. This abnormality was discovered following weight loss with a strongly positive tuberculin skin test. A plain chest X-ray showed an externally convex opacity filling the aortico-pulmonary space, suggestive of a lymphadenopathy in that area. Pulmonary angiography and selective opacification of the different afferent branches of this abnormal vein defined the territory of drainage of this A.P.V.R.