Pulmonary: 9.9: Pleura

Question 1

What does the parietal pleura attach to?

Answer 1

the chest wall

Question 2

In a ____, the trachea will be pushed to the opposite side of the injury.

Answer 2

tension pneumothorax

Question 3

This is air in the pleural space due to a penetrating chest wall injury.

Answer 3

tension pneumothorax

Question 4

This is air in the pleural space.

Answer 4

pneumothorax

Question 5

What is a spontaneous pneumothorax?

Answer 5

air in the pleural space due to rupture of an emphysematous bleb

Question 6

This is air in the pleural space due to rupture of an emphysematous bleb.

Answer 6

a spontaneous pneumothorax

Question 7

What do mesothelial cells do?

Answer 7

secrete lubricating fluid into the pleural space

Question 8

What is a tension pneumothorax?

Answer 8

air in the pleural space due to a penetrating chest wall injury

Question 9

In a tension pneumothorax, the trachea will be pushed _____.

Answer 9

to the opposite side of the injury

Question 10

Tx for a tension pneumothorax?

Answer 10

emergency insertion of a chest tube

Question 11

Who usually gets a spontaneous pneumothorax?

Answer 11

young adults

Question 12

What is a pneumothorax?

Answer 12

air in the pleural space

Question 13

What is in between the 2 layers of pleura?

Answer 13

the pleural space

Question 14

What is mesothelioma?

Answer 14

a malignant neoplasm of meothelial cells

Question 15

This is a malignant neoplasm of meothelial cells.

Answer 15

mesothelioma

Question 16

What is the pleura attached to the lung?

Answer 16

the visceral pleura

Question 17

What does a spontaneous pneumothorax cause?

Answer 17

collapse of a portion of the lung with tracheal deviation towards the collapsed side

Question 18

How does mesothelioma present?

Answer 18

• recurrent pleural effusions
• dyspnea
• chest pain

Question 19

What kind of cell lines the pleura?

Answer 19

mesothelial cells