Figures index

From

Lightning Injuries in an In-door Setting: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Albert Kreci, Gentian Vyshka, Admir Sinamati

Journal of Environment Pollution and Human Health. 2013, 1(2), 16-20 doi:10.12691/jephh-1-2-2
  • Figure 1. Internal view of the kitchen. The wood stove had an internal part of the tube serving as a connecter with the chimney (the black hole in the right-above part of the image, arrow). Consider the blast effects that interrupted the tube carrying off the smoke, with fragments of blackened walls
  • Figure 2. Aftermath of the lightning strike, with the burning of the external part of the chimney tube coming out from the wall (left part of the figure), and carbonized parts of the latter found on the ground nearby (right part of the figure)
  • Figure 3. Post-mortem changes in the dorsum of the corpse, with environmental blast effects in dorsal cervical area, due to the lightning-related explosion inside the kitchen
  • Figure 4. Entry sign of the electrical current just below and laterally the left patellar region
  • Figure 5. Autoptic findings in the myocardium, with loss of structural continuity of fibers, and post-mortem lymphocytic infiltration (Hematoxylin – Eosin, 160X)