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A lung whiteout occurs when the black in a lung field is replaced by white, suggesting that less air is entering the alveoli, maybe due to a mechanical obstruction, increased fluid, consolidation, or other factors. Lung contusion occurs when the lung's parenchyma sustains direct or indirect damage as a result of chest trauma, resulting in oedema or alveolar hematoma and the loss of the lung's physiological structure and function. Within 24 hours after the injury, there is a reduction in gas exchange, an increase in pulmonary vascular resistance, and a decrease in pulmonary compliance. Patients with serious injuries experience ARDS as a result of the inflammatory response. Chest trauma may cause lung contusions, which can manifest clinically in a number of ways. The most of the time, it goes unnoticed and is only discovered after serious complications have surfaced. Lung contusions can appear alone or in conjunction with chest injuries. It must be highlighted that a blunt or penetrating chest injury need not always be present for lung contusion to exist clinically. Nowadays, as a result of traffic accidents, lung contusion may manifest without actual tissue injury in the chest wall as a condition starting an independent, life-threatening generalised process. Although pulmonary contusion shares some clinical outcomes with lung blast injury, various variables contribute to its aetiology and pathophysiology. It is difficult to describe and identify it as a distinct pathology. Thoracic trauma, pulmonary contusion, pulmonary laceration, and lung contusion are a few methods that, despite sharing some clinical symptoms, appear in various diseases. It is actually difficult to differentiate between pathologies with similar meanings and sometimes similar clinical paths; they may accompany other injuries to the trunk, skull, or extremities, which alone are linked to severe morbidity and mortality. In general, it can be concluded that in addition to high-energy, blunt injuries to the trunk, lung contusion has been a frequently ignored additional radiological finding, despite the fact that its long-term effects are extremely important in determining the injured person's prospects.