Lung root composition
Lined with mediastinal pleura
level
3-4th costal cartilage, T5-7 posteriorly
contents
Bronchus
Pulmonary artery and veins
Bronchial artery and veins
Pulmonary plexuses of nerves
Lymphatic vessels
- pulm art superior in the root
- pulm veins inferior
- bronchi posterior
nerves
- phrenic nerves pass anteriorly to lung root but are not part of it
- Vagus nerve lies posterior to lung