0 relating to the pleura (= the membrane surrounding the lungs)
Effusions may also be related to the amount of pleural surface area supplied by collateral vessels.
Finally, the shape of the posterior pleural field, deeper in front and merging with the border behind, is narrower behind.
The method has now been extended for drainage of pleural effusions of varied aetiologies, and even pneumothorax in small patients, with the same favourable results.
Prosopon on borders and spines consists of dense concentration of relatively fine tubercles; small number of larger tubercles scattered on pleural ridges and major spines.
Two patients had bilateral pleural effusions that resolved during the in-hospital period and one a left pneumothorax without consequences.
The thorax is narrow and tapers posteriorly, the pleural spines of the last segment being long and directed backwards.
The body cavities (peritoneal and pleural), lungs, liver, heart and spleen were checked for metacestodes.
It is supposed that schistosomula escape from pulmonary capillaries into alveoli and migrate through pulmonary tissues to the pleural cavity.
