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Filigree burn of lightning

Published:2007-04 Issue:2 Volume:47 Page:171-173
ISSN:0025-8024
Container-title:Medicine, Science and the Law
language:en
Short-container-title:Med Sci Law

Author:

Kumar Virendra¹

Affiliation:

1. Lecturer and Consultant Forensic Pathologist, Department of Pathology (Forensic Unit), Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala-Lumpur-50603, Malaysia

Abstract

Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. The electric current passing through the discharge channels is direct with a potential of 1000 million volts or more. Lightning can kill or injure a person by a direct strike, a side-flash, or conduction through another object. Lightning can cause a variety of injuries in the skin and the cardiovascular, neurological and ophthalmic systems. Filigree burn of lightning is a superficial burn and very rare. Two cases of death from lightning which have this rare finding are reported and discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1258/rsmmsl.47.2.171

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