The injury to the lungs as a result of the air blast (shockwave) produced by a bomb explosion is referred to as blast lung.

Features of blast lung:

• subpleural patchy hemorrhages especially in line of ribs
• rupture of alveolar septa
• intrapulmonary hemorrhage
• desquamation of broncial and alveolar epithelia
• bullae formation at margins
• pulmonary edema
• blood stained froth in the airways
• bronchopneumonia

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