1Professor and Head, Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Patiala
2Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Patiala
3Senior Medical Officer, Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Patiala
Sometimes the pathologists come across some rare diagnoses. Amoebiasis usually involves intestines; extra-intestinal lesions are mostly in liver or some times in lungs. Brain is amongst the very rare sites of amoebic abscess. A case of a prisoner who died in hospital after an illness, diagnosed as amoebic cerebral abscess is being presented.
Amoebic, Cerebral abscess, Entamoeba histolytica
