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Your pleura is a large, thin sheet of tissue that wraps around the outside of your lungs and lines the inside of your chest cavity. Between the layers of the pleura is a very thin space. Normally it's filled with a small amount of fluid. The fluid helps the two layers of the pleura glide smoothly past each other as your lungs breathe air in and out.

Disorders of the pleura include (Read more)

Illustration of the lung featuring the pleural space
Results 1 - 10 of 87 for Pneumothorax
  1. Pleural Disorders (National Library of Medicine)
    ... Pleural effusion – excess fluid in the pleural space Pneumothorax – buildup of air or gas in the pleural ... disease (COPD), tuberculosis, and acute lung injury, cause pneumothorax. Injury to the chest is the most common ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/pleuraldisorders.html - Health Topics
  2. Collapsed lung
    Air around the lung; Air outside the lung; Pneumothorax; Spontaneous pneumothorax ... without any cause. This is called a spontaneous pneumothorax. A small area in the lung that is ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000087.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Pneumothorax (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
    Pneumothorax Basics In-Depth Multimedia Definition Symptoms Causes Risk factors Complications Tests and diagnosis Treatments and drugs ... CLICK TO ENLARGE Collapsed and normal lung A pneumothorax (a term for collapsed lung) occurs when air ...
    www.mayoclinic.com/.../DS00943/DSECTION=all&METHOD=print - External Health Links
  4. Pleurisy and Other Pleural Disorders From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
    ... pulmonary embolism can lead to a pleural effusion. Pneumothorax Air or gas also can build up in the pleural space. This is called a pneumothorax (noo-mo-THOR-aks). It can result from ...
    www.nhlbi.nih.gov/.../pleurisy/pleurisy_whatare.html - External Health Links
  5. Pneumothorax - infants
    Pneumothorax is the collection of air or gas in the space around the lungs, which leads to a lung collapse. This article discusses pneumothorax in infants. For information about pneumothorax in older ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007312.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  6. Pneumothorax - series (image)
    ... the lung will collapse. This is called a pneumothorax. If the chest wall is penetrated, which may ... the most common causes of spontaneous non-traumatic pneumothorax is a pulmonary bleb. This is a weakness ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/presentations/100150_1.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  7. ClinicalTrials.gov: Pneumothorax From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)
    clinicaltrials.gov/search/open/condition="Pneumothorax" - External Health Links
  8. Pneumothorax (image)
    ... pleura and the lungs is usually very thin. Pneumothorax is the collection of air or gas in ... a lung collapse. The most common cause of pneumothorax is a breathing machine (mechanical ventilator).
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19883.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  9. Pneumothorax - chest x-ray (image)
    Pneumothorax occurs when air leaks from inside of the lung to the space between the lung and ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/1718.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  10. Collapsed lung, pneumothorax (image)
    A collapsed lung, or pneumothorax, occurs when all or part of a lung collapses or caves inward. This occurs when air gets in the area ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19589.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
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