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Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis.


ABSTRACT: Cutaneous maggots are occasionally encountered in the emergency department. We present a case in which maggots were visually identified and ultrasound was used to detect additional maggots below the skin crevices in a patient with elephantiasis nostras verrucosa.

SUBMITTER: Nicholas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6861044 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis.

Nicholas Elizabeth E   Gaskin Kevin K   Wojcik Susan S  

Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine 20190918 4


Cutaneous maggots are occasionally encountered in the emergency department. We present a case in which maggots were visually identified and ultrasound was used to detect additional maggots below the skin crevices in a patient with elephantiasis nostras verrucosa. ...[more]

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