Thoracoplasty Staged

Thoracoplasty is a surgical operation to increase the capacity of the pleural cavity by creating an artificial defect in the rib wall. The pleural cavity under normal conditions is an anatomical space consisting of the upper, lower and lateral plates and the vestibule. In addition, its walls consist of peritoneum, which are strips of the parietal peritoneum of each of the inner sides, passing into the anterior-posterior wall of the lateral triangle of the diaphragm. Anteriorly, the muscular aponeurotic fundus is formed, and above it is the external oblique abdominal muscle and the aponeurosis of the transverse abdominal muscle. Even higher is the internal oblique muscle of the abdomen and then the ethmoid membrane and the greater omentum. The lower border of the pleura is the parietal pleura with the diaphragm. On the medial side it is limited