EMF-Portal | A Lightning Strike to the Head Causing a Visual Cortex Defect with Simple and Complex Visual Hallucinations

A Lightning Strike to the Head Causing a Visual Cortex Defect with Simple and Complex Visual Hallucinations elec. inj.

By: Kleiter I, Luerding R, Diendorfer G, Rek H, Bogdahn U, Schalke B

Published in: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007; 78 (4): 423-426

Patients

One adult, Austria

Endpoint

burns

eye injury (cateract)

ear injury

unconsciousness

neurological consequences (short-term, pain, headache, brain injury)

long-term consequences (> 1 year): neurological sequels

Exposure

lightning

current entry and exit points: not specified