pleura

Examples

• All

• The pericardium, myocardium, pleura, lungs, liver, pancreas, and genitourinary tract also may be involved.

  Academic text (2007)

• The differential diagnosis is such that a diagnosis of SFT outside the pleura is almost one of exclusion.

  Academic text (1996)

• Pericardial wounds that open into the pleura may be associated with free bleeding into the pleural space.

  Academic text (2016)

• This finding confirms the displacement of the parietal pleura within the mediastinum.

  Academic text (2002)

• The presence of pneumothorax or hemothorax found by thoracocentesis indicates injuries to the lungs and pleura.

  Academic text (2018)

• Histology of the excised pleura showed signs of chronic, mildly active inflammation.

  Academic text (2007)

• The first report of this tumor was published in 1931 by Klemperer and Rabin, who described such a lesion that had arisen from the pleura.

  Academic text (2006)

• Operation revealed a large tumor with a diameter of 4 cm arising from segment 2 and extending to segment 6, with infiltration into the parietal pleura.

  Academic text (2007)

• Imaging findings of the disease in the lung appear as mediastinal soft tissue infiltration and thickening of pulmonary peribronchovascular bundles, interlobular septae, and pleura.

  Academic text (2007)

• The doctor explained that the pleura is a thin membrane that surrounds the lungs.

Compounds

P

parietal pleura

• Specialized

7.7

A thin layer of tissue that lines the inside of the chest and covers the muscle under the lungs

V

visceral pleura

• Specialized

6.3

A thin layer that covers the outside of the lungs

Surface Forms

Etymology