The pleura fluid has a slightly sticky quality that helps draw the lungs outward during inhalation rather than slipping around the chest cavity. It creates surface tension that helps maintain the ...

Chest congestion is the result of inflamed air passages, or bronchi, in the lungs. A chest cold results from the same virus as the common cold and usually presents as a runny nose, sinus infection ...

usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. 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 ...

However, some people have lung damage, infertility ... is established early in fetal development. In normal anatomy, the ...

When diagnosing lung metastases and second primary lung cancer in patients with head and neck cancer, low-dose CT leads to better sensitivity than chest x-ray but does not lead to improved overall ...