Lightning causing inner ear damage and intracranial haematoma.
Lightning can transmit energy by way of the telephone network to the middle and the inner ear and thus cause pronounced injuries. In the patient mentioned here, the middle ear remained intact, while the inner ear was the seat of widespread damage combined with vascular rupture, the latter causing the formation of an intracranial haematoma. This was originally interpreted wrongly as a neoplasm.
D000328:Adult; D001469:Barotrauma / Q000209:etiology*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D007758:Ear, Inner / Q000293:injuries*; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008030:Lightning; D008297:Male; D013016:Sound / Q000009:adverse effects; D013689:Telephone