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What is Pleura extends beyond thoracic cage on all the following except and explain in detail?
The pleurae descend below the costal margin at three places, at the right xiphocostal angle, and at the right and left costoveebral angles below the twelfth rib behind the upper poles of the kidneys. The latter fact is of surgical impoance in the exposure of the kidney. The pleura may be damaged at this site.Ref: BD Chaurasia; volume 1; 6th edition