Haemorrhage Into The Lungs In Cases Of Death Due To Trauma
When changing circumnstances bring a lesion to the notice of a morbid anatomist as a manifestation of a new atiological factor it is well to review the past experience of the lesion and to detail, so far as possible, the variations that have been observed. Under war conditions fatalities have occurred in which the outtstanding postmortem finding has been haemorrhage into the tissue of the lung. Reviewing the peacetime incidence of haemorrhage into the lung in association with death from trauma, it must be recalled that such a lesion may occured in various conditions. Peacetime Injuries Blood may be inhaled after haemorrhage from lesions of the upper air passages or nasopharynx, or even from a fracture of the base of the skull. The blood in these cases will be found in the bronchi, bronchioles, and filling the respiratory bronchioles and alveoli in a lobuile, giving the appearance of haemorrhagic areas approximately wedge-shaped but with lobulated margins. These bloody foci are likely to be...