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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Pulmonary Medicine Volume 2012, Article ID 290802, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/290802 Review Article The Radiological Manifestations of the Aberrant Air Surrounding the Pleura: In the Embryological View Shih-Yi Lee,1, 2 Chih-Hao Chen,2, 3 Chin-Yin Sheu,2, 4 Julie Hua Ying Tai,5 Sheng-Hsiung Yang,1, 2 and Chao-Hsien Chen2, 6 1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Main Branch Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan 2 Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei 10449, Taiwan 3 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Main Branch Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan 4 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Main Branch Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan 5 Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 6 Division of Chest, Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Main Branch Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Shih-Yi Lee, leesyi5538@.tw and Julie Hua Ying Tai, juliehuayingtai@ Received 20 October 2011; Accepted 17 December 2011 Academic Editor: Takashi Nakano Copyright © 2012 Shih-Yi Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The radiological manifestations of the aberrant air surrounding the pleura are varied because of the air outlining the organs in and out of the visceral space. The continuity of the visceral space from the neck, mediastinum to the retroperitoneum is originated from embryological development, which is compatible with the findings through laboratory experiments, cadaveric anatomy, and thora- cic computer tomography image. We