[Haemangioma capillare of the pleura with ipsilateral haemopneumothorax (author's transl)].

1. The article introduces a patient with left-side haemangioma capillare of the pleura parietalis with haemopneumothorax and ipsilateral cystic changes of the left upper lobe of the l,ng. 2. The aetiopathogenesis of the disease is discussed as an abortive type of Rendu-Osler-Weber disease (hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia), the diagnosis being based exclusively on histological findings as the only possibility of diagnosis. 3. The therapeutic approach is discussed.