Licencia creative commons ResumenLa Miasis es un parasitismo de los tejidos vivos o necróticos y órganos de los seres humanos causados por larvas de díptero, dentro de la clasificación según su localización se describe la miasis cavitaria, la miasis cerebral se describe como una entidad excepcionalmente rara, en esta se puede presentar la invasión del tejido meníngeo y encefálico, posterior a la perforación de los huesos del cráneo. Presentamos el caso de un paciente atendido en servicio de urgencias del Hospital Departamental Universitario del Quindío San Juan de Dios de Armenia -Colombia, quien consultó por múltiples cuadros de cefalea y malestar general, encontrando ulceración excavada, mal oliente, con infestación por larvas y huevos en el cuero cabelludo de región parietal y occipital con pérdida de tejido, recibió inicialmente manejo médico, los cuales no se lograban finalizar, dado que en la mayoría de ocasiones el paciente solicitaba retiros voluntarios. Luego de varios reingresos hospitalarios y tratamientos incompletos, el paciente ingresa al servicio de urgencias con gran deterioro neurológico, empeoramiento en su estado clínico y posteriormente fallece.Palabras clave: Miasis, cerebral, cavitaria, Dípteros, Parasitismo, Tratamiento AbstractMyiasis is an infection by parasites that invade living or necrotic tissues and organs, it is cause by the larvae of diptero. The classification according localization is divided in cavity myiasis in which it can invade the meninges and brain after the perforation into de skull this condition is extremely wear (1), like the case we are going to discuss a patient who came to the emergency room (ER) service of the Hospital Departametal Universitario del Quindío San Juan de Dios Armenia -Colombia, for multiple episodes of headache and general discomfort; in the ER was found a excavated ulceration, smelly, with larvade and eggs in the parietal and occipital region, with scalp involvement and loss of tissue, he received treatment but they could not finish because the patient sign voluntary retirement of the hospital. After several admissions to the hospital and unfinished treatments, the patient comes to the ER service with large neurological deterioration, worsening clinical condition and he finally pass away.Cerebral myiasis is exceptionally rare, most of the reports comes from developing countries and in Colombia there is not reports in literature of this that's why the need arises of report this clinical case of myiasis and more specifically his affectation on the brain.
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