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Amoebic brain abscess
Classification and external resources
ICD-10 A06.5
ICD-9 006.5

An Amoebic brain abscess is a brain abscess caused by amoebas.

It can be caused by Entamoeba histolytica.[1]

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis and Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis can also invade the brain.

References

  1. ^ Shah AA, Shaikh H, Karim M (February 1994). "Amoebic brain abscess: a rare but serious complication of Entamoeba histolytica infection". J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 57 (2): 240–1. doi:10.1136/jnnp.57.2.240-a. PMID 8126521. PMC 1072466. http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=8126521.  
Infectious diseases - Parasitic disease: protozoan infection: Amoebozoa diseases (A06, 006)
Lobosea
(free-living)
Conosa/Archamoebae
see also drugs
Pathology of the nervous system, primarily CNS (G04–G47, 323–349)
Inflammation
Both/either
Brain/
encephalopathy
Episodic/
paroxysmal
Other
Spinal cord/
myelopathy
Both/either
central nervous system navs: anat/physio/dev, noncongen/congen/neoplasia, symptoms+signs/eponymous, proc







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