Your ribs are located in the chest, also called the thoracic cavity. Each rib has five parts: head, neck, body (or shaft), tubercle, and angle. The 12 pairs of ribs in the body are numbered based ...

The ribs allow chest expansion for breathing, Martinez explains. "They function similarly to the bucket handle on a bucket and swing upwards as we take a breath, allowing the thoracic cavity to ...

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 ...

The Thoracic Surgery Clinic at Baylor Medicine’s Lung Institute in Houston, Texas, specializes in the care and treatment of patients with benign and malignant disorders of the chest cavity (thorax).

The floater rib is also beneficial when the lung field is collapsed and invasion into the upper portion of the field of thoracic cavity is performed. In other words, the first rib, moved down ...