Extensive Cutaneous Burn Complicated by Severe Necrotizing Amebic Enterocolitis
- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 27 (4) , 766-769
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1978.27.766
Abstract
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.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Concepts and Misconceptions in AmebiasisThe American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1952