For example, the visceral pleura lines the lungs, and the parietal pleura covers the inner thoracic wall. In dogs, the pleural cavity exists as a potential space, with the visceral and parietal ...
"Your thoracic cavity (chest cavity) is a space inside your thorax (chest) that contains your heart, lungs and other organs and tissues," according to ClevelandClinic.org. A thoracic contusion is ...
The Thoracic Surgery Clinic at Baylor Medicine’s Lung Institute in Houston, Texas, specializes in the care and treatment of patients with benign and malignant disorders of the chest cavity (thorax).
When a bleb ruptures the air escapes into the chest cavity causing a pneumothorax (air between the lung and chest cavity) which can result in a collapsed lung. If blebs become larger or come together ...