vascular supply

Last reviewed 01/2018

Arterial supply:

• parietal pleura: from the supply to the thoracic body wall e.g.:
• intercostal arteries
• internal thoracic arteries
• musculophrenic arteries
• visceral pleura: from the bronchial arterial supply to the underlying lung

Venous supply:

• parietal pleura: drain to veins within thoracic body wall e.g.:
• venae comitantes of internal thoracic vein
• posterior intercostal veins of azygous system
• visceral pleura: drain into pulmonary veins of deeper lung parenchyma