Eight-year-old twin boys, camping in a backyard tent, received penetrating blast injuries when a bolt of lightning struck a transformer near their tent, sending them to the emergency department for treatment. The extremely rare case study was published online in Annals of Emergency Medicine. "One of the boys had a missile trajectory through the lung - very much like injuries caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) - which we could have missed because on the outside he had only a tiny puncture wound to the chest," said lead study author Lt. Col. O.J.F...

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