Resumen

SANCHEZ LIHON, Juvenal, CASAVILCA ZAMBRANO, Sandro, CUELLAR PONCE DE LEON, Luis et al. Meningoencefalitis y osteomielitis por amebas de vida libre: reporte de un caso. Rev Med Hered, abr./jun. 2004, vol.15, no.2, p.118-121. ISSN 1018-130X.

We report a case of a seven year old girl, from Parinas-Piura, who was admited in the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas with an expansile intracraneal process and neurological deficit. The patient die and the necropsy shown osteomyelitis of right orbital bones and chronic meningoencephalitis with angiitis due to free living amoebas. (Rev Med Hered 2004; 15:119-122).

Palabras llave: Free living amoebas; osteomyelitis; meningoencephalitis.