[Experimental animal studies on lung contusion].

Isolating lung contusions were represented by means of animal experiments in rats. The mechanism of the trauma was a bounce against the thorax wall with a steel cylinder. Macroscopic pulmonary alterations, lung weights, the frequency of secondary injuries as well as the mortality rate are the parameters of the lesion. The lung alterations shows communities with human lung contusions. The model is suitable for the specification of histological and morphological alterations and for the pathogenesis of lung contusions as well as for the quest of diagnostic parameters. The intensity of the lung contusion is limited by initial rupture of vessels. To the test of clinical therapy and for the release of limited lung contusions there are required models with other mechanisms of trauma.