Unexpected gastrointestinal complications in severely burned children

The authors refer to the frequently difficult diagnosis of gastrointestinal complications of major burns, particularly in childhood, to weight the factors co-responsible for the development of those complications and to stress the importance of the patient's history. They report on the case of three and a half year-old child to demonstrate the fatal course of a late diagnosed complications -- perforating cholecystitis. Autopsy showed the chronic nature of the disease with acute exacerbation in the course of treatment. No case similar to this one has yet been seen at the Prague Burns Centre in any age category.