[Angiographic findings in a patient with spontaneous hemopneumothorax]

We experienced one patient with spontaneous hemopneumothorax in whom angiography was performed preoperatively. The patient was a 23-year-old female and her plain chest X-ray revealed an index-finger-tip-sized bulla at the left apex and a narrow restiform shadow connecting the pleural cupola with the bulla. Left subclavian arteriography revealed preoperatively that the restiform shadow consisted of aberrant vessels branched from the left costocervical trunk and distributed in and around the bulla at the apex. In the present study very rare angiographic findings and excised specimens obtained from the patient are shown, with reference to surgical indication of spontaneous pneumothorax.