Pleura

The pleurae (sing.: pleura) are two flattened sacs filled with fluid that surround each lung. Each pleura - left and right - is a serous membrane that separates the corresponding lung from the chest wall, the diaphragm and the mediastinum. Although wrapped onto the lung resulting in a double layer, each pleural membrane is a single, continuous structure. The part of each pleura that covers the surface of the lung is the visceral pleura. The pleura typically dips between the lobes of the lung as fissures, and is formed by the invagination of lung buds into each thoracic sac during embryonic development. The part of the pleura that lines the chest wall, covers the diaphragm and other structure (Wikipedia)

Related conditions

• benign pleural mesothelioma
• blastomycosis
• camptodactyly-arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis syndrome
• congenital chylothorax
• generalized lymphatic anomaly
• malignant parietal pleura tumor
• malignant peritoneal solitary fibrous tumor
• malignant pleural mesothelioma
• malignant pleural solitary fibrous tumor
• malignant visceral pleura tumor
• mediastinitis
• neurilemmoma of the pleura