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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.

Accepted for publication December 17, 1977.

^* The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.

Address reprint requests to: Major Thomas W. Panke, MD, MC, U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234.