0 relating to the pleura (= the membrane surrounding the lungs) --
Anterior pleural field excavated by rather large triangular depression devoid of sculptural elements.
Anterior pleural field adaxially as long as pleural ridge (exsag.); ramp-like, inclined backwards from elevated anterior border, without obvious internal structures.
Posterior pleural field deeply depressed between pleural ridge and axial furrow, displaying an inconspicuously elevated thin pleural ridge.
Pleural furrows wide, dividing pleural field into four pleural bands.
Seven patients had multiple-lobe involvement (7.86%), and only three patients had pleural effusion (3.36%).
The postoperative course was far from smooth, with pleural effusions and ascites as well as oliguria and, subsequently, anuria.
Pleural scales creamy, except on both the pronotal lobes, the dorsal parts of which are brown-scaled.
It is supposed that schistosomula escape from pulmonary capillaries into alveoli and migrate through pulmonary tissues to the pleural cavity.
