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One patient demonstrated multiple recurrences on the chest wall, with eventual direct extension to the pericardium, pleura, and lung.
There is a long, serrated rostrum and the abdomen bears pointed terminations on the pleura.
A large tumor was found that originated from the parietal pleura at the dorsal site.
The thoracic pleura of Archizelmiridae, visible in some of the amber fossils, provide additional clues about relationships.
The rupture involved all layers of the aortic wall, but the mediastinal pleura remained intact.
Explanations for the cytokeratin immunoreactivity include locally entrapped mediastinal pleura or pulmonary epithelium.
Encysted effusion may be confused with a mass lesion of the pleura, mediastinum, chest wall and lungs.
There were several small distant metastases in the upper lobe of the same lung and in the opposite pleura or subpleural lung parenchyma.
The mediastinal pleura is then incised over the length of the esophagus, avoiding injury to any neural or major vascular structures.
Some of this fluid crosses the visceral pleura and accumulates as a small sterile pleural effusion.
Grossly, the surface of the lungs may show flat to slightly raised disk-shaped red to violaceous plaques confined to the visceral pleura.
The tumor frequently extended to the adjacent lung parenchyma, bronchi, visceral pleura, and mediastinal soft tissues.
It is quite possible that the diffusion of bioactive antibiotics would be hindered by the thickened pleura.
Species identification was based on the morphologies of the rostrum and the 5th pleura.
Malignant mesothelioma is an uncommon neoplasm yet it is the most common primary malignancy of the pleura.
Metastatic foci were also seen in the mesenteric lymph nodes, pancreas, stomach, visceral pleura, and bone marrow.
The tumor, which is often but not always associated with cystic lung lesions, may arise in pulmonary parenchyma, the mediastinum, and pleura.
It may cause interstitial lung disease by diffusely involving the pleura, interlobular septa, and pulmonary bronchovascular bundles.
In the chest, the tumors can arise from either the visceral or parietal pleura.
There were several points of adhesion from the lung to the chest wall and to the mediastinal pleura.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In short, an abscess in the pericardium must be treated like an abscess in the pleura.
Infective emboli are liable to lodge in the lung or pleura, and set up pulmonary abscess, gangrene of the lung, or empyema.
I have occasionally found them free in the cavities of the abdomen and pleura.
The cavity of the chest in which the lungs are suspended is also lined by the pleura.
The diaphragm on its upper surface, highly injected, as was also the pleura lining the thorax.
The pleura and diaphragm also showed a good deal of disease and some adhesion.
Hydrothorax, sero-fibrinous pleurisy, and emphysema may develop either with or without cancerous invasion of the pleura.
The pleura is a thin membrane that envelops the lung and lines the walls of the thoracic cavity.
A case of hyaline fibrous plaque of the pleura was also included in this series.
In rare cases the pus opens into the pleura, giving rise to empyema.
On the 19th January, some liquid appeared in the pleura on the same side.
On the left side was a small abscess, under the pleura costalis.
Orth found them in the pleura, lungs, kidneys, and urinary bladder.
Necropsy showed cerebral edema and hemorrhages in the pleura, lungs, pericardium, endocardium, and gastric mucosa.
The pleura may reach as high as the medial border of the rib.
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