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Marlene Tadler1, Eva Rüegg1, Marc Niquille2
1Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine , Geneva , Switzerland.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|February 7, 2017
Abstract:
The interdisciplinary management of patients with multiple organ injuries after lightning strike is of paramount importance. Cutaneous burns can be associated to other organ injuries requiring emergency and life-support treatment. We report the case of a lightning strike victim who presented with burns as well as cardiologic and neurologic complications.
