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An Unusual Complication of an Electrical Burn

MAJ Thomas W. Newsome, MC, USA; LTC P. William Curreri, MC, USA; MAJ Karl Eurenius, MC, USA

AMA Arch Surg. 1972;105(3):494-497.

Abstract
A case of high-voltage electrical injury with massive retroperitoneal muscle necrosis, focal hepatic coagulation necrosis, acute pancreatitis, and an acute coagulopathy with factor V, factor X, and platelet deficits occurred. Visceral involvement by electrical current is unusual, and to our knowledge, hepatic necrosis from this type of injury has not been described previously.

Author Affiliations
Fort Sam Houston, Tex

From the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Tex.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 14, 1972.

Reprint requests to US Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Tex 78234 (Dr. Newsome).

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