[Lung contusions: diagnostics, treatment stages].

The authors studied a group of patients with simple thorax injury, contusion of lungs and injury of thorax frame (1225 patients), who had been refused to be hospitalized to specialized poly-trauma departments due to some reasons. 34% of these patients had fractures of ribs, thorax and rib arcs and 15% of them had two-sided traumas. The group of the patients with simple thorax injury and lung contusion, but without injuries of thorax frame, consisted of 63% of the patients, who addressed for an aid at first hours after accidents. Clinical X-ray pictures have been not clearly expressive. 37% of patients, who had asked for medical aid in 3-5 days after accidents, had trauma complications. As a result, they had long-term outpatient treatment of pneumonia and pleurisy. In order to provide necessary aid to patients and carry out prophylactics of delayed complications it is recommended to hospitalize these people to therapeutic and pulmonary departments.