Pleural diseases affect the pleural tissue that lines the inside of the chest cavity and covers the outside of the lungs. The visceral pleura (which covers the lung) and the parietal pleura (which ...

the chest-wall muscles, the ribs, the intercostal muscles, two pleural laminae (the parietal pleura and the visceral pleura) with the pleural cavity in between them, and the lungs. Connective ...