Punctured lung is when air leaks from the lung cavity into the chest cavity, creating pressure on the lung and leading to ...

From heart attacks to lung conditions, discover when chest pain demands immediate attention and the key differences between ...

When a bleb ruptures the air escapes into the chest cavity causing a pneumothorax (air between the lung and chest cavity) which can result in a collapsed lung. If blebs become larger or come together ...

The sixth rib is removed to provide access, and the space between the lung and chest cavity is carefully dissected—a process of separating tissues to expose and address affected areas. The tumor is ...

whose lungs were fused so tightly to his chest cavity that doctors needed extra time to delicately remove them. The innovative technology, a lung refrigerator, was used in a dozen of the 148 lung ...

The air that enters the nasal cavity flows down the trachea. The trachea has a number of adaptations: cartilage rings in the walls of the trachea help to keep it open ciliated epithelium and ...

To investigate the different kinds of lungs the team used CT scans to look at the lung cavities of four modern crocodilians and 29 modern birds and compare their structure with those of 16 different ...