Landmark · Visceral systems
Hilum of lung
Hilum pulmonis
- System
- Visceral systems
- Regions
- Trunk, Thorax
- Side
- Right
- Landmark on
- Superior lobe of right lung
DescriptionUnreviewed
Place of entrance and exit of the bronchi, vessels and nerves in the mediastinal surface of the lung.
BAsically, the bronchi are in the back part, the pulmonary artery in front and cranially, the pulmonary veins in front and caudally.
At the right hilum, the superior lobar bronchus is placed above the pulmonary artery, in the shape of an 'eparterial' bronchus.
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Names
- Latin
- Hilum pulmonis
- English
- Hilum of lung
- French
- Hile du poumon
- Spanish
- Hilio de pulmón
- Portuguese
- Hilo de pulmão