Endothoracic fascia

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The endothoracic fascia (here in English: endothoracic fascia ) as the area between the pleura and the chest wall, according to the second definition

The endothoracic fascia is a fascia that lines the thorax from the inside and thus participates in the formation of the chest wall and separates the organs of the thorax from the ribs and the intercostal muscles. Towards the head it merges into the medial and deep cervical fascia, caudally into the diaphragm and into the transversalis fascia . The endothoracic fascia is neither to be equated with the internal thoracic fascia , which covers the intercostal muscles as a “real muscle fascia”, nor with the periosteum or the pleura , although these delimitations have been chosen differently by different authors: In the definition described here, the endothoracic fascia means the connective tissue-like area between the internal thoracic fascia and the pleura, other definitions see the endothoracic fascia as the entire tissue between the chest wall and the pleura.

Ventrally, on the sternum and dorsally, on the spine , the fascia has a transition to the mediastinum .

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on Fascia endothoracica in Flexikon , a Wiki of the DocCheck company , accessed on November 27, 2015.

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