Nontraumatic Injuries of Lung.
- Author:
Jong Tae PARK
1
;
Young Jik LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Chonnam University Medical School, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Contusions;
Lung Diseases;
Lung*;
Radiation Injuries;
Rupture
- From:Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
1997;21(2):76-83
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Injury is generally defined as morphological changes due to physical or chemical stress, inflammatory or repair process, or secondary events of the other disease. In the nontraumatic injuries of the lung, direct physical effects to the lung such as contusion or rupture of the lung must be excluded. So, the types of nontraumatic injuries of lung are all pathologic changes of lung except for congenital anomalies; infectious of inflammatory disease, aspiration induced injuries, environmental or occupational lung disease, postoperative pulmonary changes, poison or drug induced toxic injuries, radiation injury, etc...
