The Harry Potter Forehead Scar Following A Lightning Injury

Abstract

Lightning strikes kill 1,000 people per year worldwide. They are also responsible for several hundred deaths and thousands of injuries each year in this country. Survivors sustain a variety of neurological, cardiac, musculoskeletal, and dermatological injuries. Eye and ear injuries are also noted in the literature. We report a case of a 14 year old girl. CASE REPORT This is a case report of a 14 year old girl who presented to The Royal Free Hospital Plastic Surgery Unit with a forehead lesion. Four years previously, she had been struck by lightning whilst walking on a gravel road. She was wearing a metal hair-clip at the time. The lightning apparently struck her right trainer and caused a hole. She noticed a well–demarcated, mobile, hard lesion a few months later. A scar was also present over the supra-orbital area as shown in the photograph below.