Blast Lung
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
