Lightning injury: report of two cases.
Two cases of lightning injury which occurred while mountain climbing and took different clinical courses are reported. One case with lightning marks on the abdomen was treated as a crush injury because of myoglobinuria and elevation of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, lactic dehydrogenase and creatine phosphokinase. The other case had lightning burns and complained of abdominal pain. He was treated with fluid transfusion resulting from superficial and deep dermal burns estimated at 55 per cent of the body surface and received a skin graft. The subsequent three-year follow-up has revealed no residual deformity in either case.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008030:Lightning; D008297:Male; D009051:Mountaineering; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology