[Radiological findings in total abnormal drainage of pulmonary veins, not associated to other major cardiopulmonary abnormalities (isolated form)].

Thirty patients with anomalous drainage total in the veins of the lungs (A.D.T.V.L.) not associated to greater cardiovascular deformations (in an isolated form) perfectly confirmated by a surgery or by a necropsic study, were examinated. In all of them there was a research to find out any radiologic sign which could make suspect about the anomaliation. The diagnosis could be established in eleven cases (36.6 per cent) with the thorax habitual radiologic study, owed to the recognition of some signs that have been cataloged as the characteristic; as it occurs in the A.D.T.V.L. in the level in the system in the upper left chamber that bring into existence a silhouette in "snowman" and in the drainage in the subphrenic level which makes appear a sign of the "scimitar". In the varieties of the A.D.T.V.L. it wasn't possible to discover any suggestive radiologic sign of the entity.