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Previous Volume 330:1492 May 26, 1994 Number 21 Next

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View larger version (32K): [in this window] [in a new window]   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.

 

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

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