Endothoracic fascia
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
- ↑ Entry on Fascia endothoracica in Flexikon , a Wiki of the DocCheck company , accessed on November 27, 2015.
Web links
- Thoracic wall, pleura, mediastinum . Charite.de
literature
- Angelika Strunk: Fascial osteopathy . 2nd Edition. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8304-7922-2 , p. 149 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Anton Hafferl: Textbook of topographical anatomy . Springer Verlag, 1953, ISBN 3-662-12245-6 , pp. 307 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Anton Hafferl: The anatomy of the pleural dome . Springer Verlag, Berlin 1939, ISBN 3-662-32479-2 , p. 51 ( limited preview in Google Book search).