Extensive Cutaneous Burn Complicated by Severe Necrotizing Amebic Enterocolitis

Pathogenic Factors Resulting in Severe Amebic Disease

Thomas W. PankeU.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234

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David K. TeegardenU.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234

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Thomas J. LescherU.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234

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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.

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