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Neurologic manifestations of lightning strikesMichael Cherington
Lightning Data Center, St. Anthony Hospital, 4231 West 16th Avenue, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Neurology 60:182-5. 2003
Lightning injuries in sports: situations to avoidM Cherington
Lightning Data Center, St Anthony Hospital, Denver, Colorado, USA
Sports Med 31:301-8. 2001..A nearby closed automobile may be the safest place until the danger is gone. Applying precautions when engaging in these sporting or recreational activities will help to minimise the risk of casualties or fatalities caused by lightning...
Spectrum of neurologic complications of lightning injuriesMichael Cherington
Lightning Data Center, St Anthony Hospital, 4231 W 16th Avenue, Denver, CO 80204, USA
NeuroRehabilitation 20:3-8. 2005..The sensible course for individuals at risk is to learn and follow lightning safety recommendations...
James Parkinson: links to Charcot, Lichtenbergh, and lightningMichael Cherington
Lightning Data Center, St Anthony Hospital, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Arch Neurol 61:977. 2004
Lichtenberg figures and lightning: case reports and review of the literatureMichael Cherington
Lightning Data Center, St Anthony Hospitals, 4231 W 16th Ave, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Cutis 80:141-3. 2007..Many researchers believe that LFs are fractal patterns and do not correspond to known vascular or neuroanatomic patterns. We present our ideas on possible mechanisms of the pathophysiology of LFs...
Lightning and Lichtenberg figuresMichael Cherington
Lightning Data Center, St. Anthony Hospital, 4231 W. 16th Avenue, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Injury 34:367-71. 2003
Mountain medical mystery. Unwitnessed death of a healthy young man, caused by lightningM Cherington
Lightning Data Center, Centura Health-St. Anthony Hospital, Denver, Colorado 80204, USA
Am J Forensic Med Pathol 22:296-8. 2001..The National Lightning Detection Network can be a valuable resource to investigators by providing information on the location and date of lightning strikes in the vicinity of the victim...
Ball lightning encephalopathyMichael Cherington
J Burn Care Rehabil 24:175. 2003
Neurorehabilitation of the multifaceted and complicated neurologic problems associated with lightning and electrical injuriesMichael Cherington
NeuroRehabilitation 20:1-2. 2005
Autonomic nervous system dysfunction in lightning and electrical injuriesWolfgang H Jost
Department of Neurology, Deutsche Klinik fur Diagnostik, Wiesbaden, Germany
NeuroRehabilitation 20:19-23. 2005..The syndrome consists of limb paralysis, sensory symptoms, pallor, coolness and absent pulses. Release of excessive catecholamines is said to be responsible for these findings. Fortunately, the condition is transient...
Re: ball lightning injuriesMichael Cherington
Ann Plast Surg 51:525; author reply 525-6. 2003
