Citation

Fitzpatrick-Swallow VL, Kneubuehl BP, Schroter RC, Bentley AJ. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 2012; 33(3): 286-288.

Affiliation

From the *Department of Histopathology, St Thomas' Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; †Centre of Forensic Physics and Ballistics, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; ‡Department of Bioengineering, Royal School of Mines Building, Imperial College London, London; and §State Pathologist's Department of Northern Ireland, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Belfast, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PAF.0b013e3182558179

PMID

22835971

Abstract

Primary blast lung injury after explosions has been well described in the literature. A case of injury to the lung, after a shotgun wound to the head, similar to primary blast lung, is presented. Histological appearances of the lung revealed alveolar over distension, rupture and intra-alveolar hemorrhage. Primary blast lung injury is considered the reserve of high-order explosives; however, this case reveals similar injuries from a shotgun (low-order explosive), which has not been reported before to the best of our knowledge.

Language: en