Images in Clinical Medicine

Kim Eagle, M.D., Editor

Struck by Lightning

Manfred Zehender, M.D.

N Engl J Med 1994; 330:1492May 26, 1994

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Figure 1 Struck by Lightning.

A 41-year-old woman in her 26th week of pregnancy was struck by lightning while standing under a tree during a thunderstorm. The lightning entered her body on the right side of the neck through a necklace, went toward the ground, was deflected by the baby's head, and left the woman's body through the left leg, marking its way by a cutaneous “lightning print.” The woman survived, but the baby died.

Kim Eagle, M.D.

Manfred Zehender, M.D.
Universitatsklinik Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany

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