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a variety of issues surrounding brain injury due to electric shock and
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Lightning
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Lightning
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Mensana Clinic --
Specialize in the treatment of Lightning Strike and Electric Shock injuries.
1718 Greenspring Valley Road, Stevenson, MD 21153 -- Telephone:
410-653-2403
Fax:
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National Lightning Safety
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Selected
Bibliography Lightning
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| Wilbourn, A.J., 1995: Peripheral nerve disorders in electrical and
lightning injuries. Seminars in Neurology, 15, 241-255. |
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| Wilks, G., 1879: Case of lightning stroke. Lancet, 2, 655. |
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| Wood, R.A., 1985: A dangerous family: The thunderstorm and its offspring.
Weatherwise, 38, 131-135. |
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| Woods, J.D., 1952: Spinal atrophic paralysis following lightning
stroke. South African Medical Journal, 26, 92-93. |
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| Wright, F.W., Jr., and K.C. Silk, 1974: Acoustic and vestibular
defects in lightning survivors. Laryngoscope, 84, 1378-1387. |
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| Yarnell, P.R. and D.P. Lammertse, 1995: Neurorehabilitation of lightning
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| Zack, F., U. Hammer, I. Klett, and R. Wegener, 1997: Myocardial
injury due to lightning. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 110,
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Youngs, R.J. Deck, P. Kwok, and M. Hawke, 1988: Severe sensorineural
hearing loss caused by lightning. Archives of
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| Zubarev, S.F., 1971: A case of bilateral cataract from lightning. Sov.
Zdravoorkhar Kirg., 3, 62-63. |
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