Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, Section of Forensic Medicine, University of Verona, P.le L.A. Scuro 10, 37134 Verona, Italy.
Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, Section of Forensic Medicine, University of Verona, P.le L.A. Scuro 10, 37134 Verona, Italy.
Leg Med (Tokyo). 2022 May;56:102028. doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2022.102028. Epub 2022 Feb 1.
Lichtenberg figures are pathognomonic markings commonly described as transient pink-red fractal pattern marks on the skin of people struck by a lightning. Their nature and the underlying physiopathology are still largely unknown. Here we describe a Lichtenberg figure in a 45-year-old woman who died due to a lightning strike during a thunderstorm. On autopsy, five days after the fatal event, she presented atypical green Lichtenberg figures on the skin of her abdomen. This appearance has not previously been described in the scientific literature, so a review of literature was done to support our observation.
利希滕贝格图形是一种特征性标记,通常被描述为被闪电击中的人的皮肤出现短暂的粉红色红色分形图案标记。其性质和潜在的病理生理学仍知之甚少。在这里,我们描述了一名 45 岁女性在雷暴中被闪电击中死亡后的利希滕贝格图形。在致命事件发生五天后的尸检中,她的腹部皮肤呈现出非典型的绿色利希滕贝格图形。这种外观以前在科学文献中没有描述过,因此我们进行了文献回顾以支持我们的观察。