Extensive cutaneous burn complicated by severe necrotizing amebic enterocolitis. Pathogenic factors resulting in severe amebic disease.
A 59-yr-old Mexican-American man developed fatal necrotizing amebic enterocolitis following an extensive cutaneous thermal injury. Those factors in the severely burned patient which predispose to amebic disease are discussed.
D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications*; D004404:Dysentery, Amebic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries*