Many different muscles make up the chest wall. A person can strain or sprain these muscles during exercise. As a result, the chest will feel painful and tender to the touch. This type of chest ...

Chest wall tumors are uncommon; surgical repair involves both resection of the tumor and reconstruction of the chest structures. Diagnosis of the tumor is performed to determine whether it is benign ...

The tumor is then separated from the chest wall. Once a sufficient area of the chest wall has been cleared, a chest retractor is inserted to facilitate further surgical steps. The pleura now can be ...

On this view the filling of the lungs would be due to the elastic recoil of the thoracic wall and expansion of the cavity following the muscular contraction, and when a whale dies and the muscles ...

Placement of a chest tube may be necessary for management of pleural space disease in mammals. This column describes two accepted techniques for thoracostomy tube placement in the dog. A ...