Legionnaire's pneumonia complicating a thermal burn.
The report describes a patient with 45 per cent BSA burns who developed Legionnaire's disease 3 days after the acute injury. The diagnosis of this life-threatening complication was late because most of its signs and symptoms can be encountered in the burned patient. This delay could have been fatal to the patient and required the evacuation of the burn centre for disinfection.
Signorini
M
M
Department of Plastic Surgery and Postgraduate School of Plastic Surgery, Milan University Medical School, Italy.
Grappolini
S
S
Lo Cicero
S
S
Candiani
P
P
Klinger
M
M
Donati
L
L
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D014195:Travel; D014481:United States
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents