Blunt chest trauma induces mediator-dependent monocyte migration to the lung.

Objective: This study was designed to determine whether lung contusion induces an increased pulmonary recruitment of monocytes as a source of alveolar macrophages and which mediators are involved.

Setting And Design: Prospective animal study.

Subjects And Interventions: Male Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to chest trauma by a single blast wave.