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Phrenico-pleural fascia
Thin narrow slip of fibrous connective tissue found along the inferior border of the
pleura & anchoring it to the diaphragm and adjoining ribs and costal cartilages
Pulmonary ligament
Empty, lower part of the double layered pleura whose lower end may reach the
diaphragm
The transition of the mediastinal parietal pleura to the visceral part along the medial
aspect of the lung, produces a longitudinal vertical fold of serous membrane,
occupied at its upper portion by the structures forming the root of the lung