Citation

López Chiriboga AS, Cheshire WP. J. Oral Facial Pain Headache 2017; 31(4): e7-e9.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Quintessence Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

29073666

Abstract

Lightning and other electrical incidents are responsible for more than 300 injuries and 100 deaths per year in the United States alone. Lightning strikes can cause a wide spectrum of neurologic manifestations affecting any part of the neuraxis through direct strikes, side flashes, touch voltage, connecting leaders, or acoustic shock waves. This article describes the first case of trigeminal neuralgia induced by lightning injury to the trigeminal nerve, thereby adding a new syndrome to the list of possible lightning-mediated neurologic injuries.

Language: en