Thoracic Cavity Basics

What is the shape of the inferior border of the thoracic cavity?

At which level of the thoracic spine does the inferior border reach the vertebral column?

Which of the following ribs is crossed by the inferior border opposite the lateral border of sacrospinalis muscle?

What is the nerve supply of the visceral pleura?

What can be said about the visceral pleura's sensitivity?

What is the direction of the posterior border of the pleura?

Which nerves supply the cervical pleura?

What type of stimuli is the visceral pleura not sensitive to?

Which vessels supply the visceral pleura?

Which part of the diaphragmatic pleura is supplied by the phrenic nerve?

What type of innervation does the visceral pleura receive?

Which nerve supplies the mediastinal and central part of diaphragmatic pleura?

Which vessels supply the visceral pleura?

Which lymph nodes drain the parietal pleura?

Which nerve supplies the peripheral part of diaphragmatic pleura?

Which vessels supply the parietal pleura?

What is the result of friction between the pleural surfaces?

Where is the pain referred to when the peripheral part of the diaphragmatic pleura is inflamed?

Which nerve shares the same cervical spinal segments as the supraclavicular nerves?

What can cause air to enter the pleural cavity?

What is the result of air entering the pleural cavity?

What is the cause of referred pain at the tip of the shoulder?

What happens when air enters the pleural cavity from a perforation in the lung?

Where is the safest location to introduce a large wide-bore needle to drain fluid from the pleural cavity?

What is the result of a wound in the thoracic wall?

Why is it important to avoid the neurovascular bundle when introducing a needle to drain fluid from the pleural cavity?

What is the purpose of introducing a large wide-bore needle in the pleural cavity?