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Original communication| Volume 9, ISSUE 1, P80-86, January 1941

The surgical aspects of lightning stroke

With a case report
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      Abstract

      We have described what seems to be the first case which recovered from a skull fracture with brain injury resulting from a lightning stroke. A prolonged cerebrospinal otorrhea ceased spontaneously, uncomplicated by meningitis, possibly due to the prophylactic use of sulfanilamide.
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