title: [Certain theoretical-methodological problems of forensic medical expertise of the blast injury].
abstract: This article is devoted to the analysis of the theoretical problems facing forensic medical expertise of the blast injury. The original notions of the blast, injurious blast factors, and their traumatic consequences are proposed together with the classification of the blasts and their injurious factors. The principal lines of the further research on the forensic medical aspects of the blast injury are formulated.
authors.affiliation: Leningrad Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 198095; Academician I.P. Pavlov First Sankt-Peterburg Medical University, Russian Ministry of Health, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 195067.
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Popov
mesh_terms: D001753:Blast Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000379:methods; D005107:Explosions / Q000145:classification*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans