Orbital Myiasis

PURPOSE: To present a case of massive orbital myiasis. CASE REPORT: An 87-year-old debilitated woman suffering from left ocular pain of four days’ duration presented with a severely necrotized left orbit and several attached live larvae. The upper and lower eyelids and the eyeball were completely de...

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Autores principales: Khataminia, Gholamreza, Aghajanzadeh, Roja, Vazirianzadeh, Babak, Rahdar, Mahmoud
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ophthalmic Research Center 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22454736
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author Khataminia, Gholamreza
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Rahdar, Mahmoud
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description PURPOSE: To present a case of massive orbital myiasis. CASE REPORT: An 87-year-old debilitated woman suffering from left ocular pain of four days’ duration presented with a severely necrotized left orbit and several attached live larvae. The upper and lower eyelids and the eyeball were completely destroyed. She had history of eyelid surgery in the same eye due to a skin lesion, apparently some type of skin cancer, 15 years before. The larvae were identified as Chrysomya bezziana (Diptera: Calliphoridae) or old world screwworm fly. CONCLUSION: Infestation of ocular and orbital tissues by fly larvae (ophthalmomyiasis) progresses rapidly and can completely destroy orbital tissues within days, especially in patients with poor general health. Treatment consists of removal of the larvae and surgical debridement.
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spelling pubmed-33060962012-03-27 Orbital Myiasis Khataminia, Gholamreza Aghajanzadeh, Roja Vazirianzadeh, Babak Rahdar, Mahmoud J Ophthalmic Vis Res Case Report PURPOSE: To present a case of massive orbital myiasis. CASE REPORT: An 87-year-old debilitated woman suffering from left ocular pain of four days’ duration presented with a severely necrotized left orbit and several attached live larvae. The upper and lower eyelids and the eyeball were completely destroyed. She had history of eyelid surgery in the same eye due to a skin lesion, apparently some type of skin cancer, 15 years before. The larvae were identified as Chrysomya bezziana (Diptera: Calliphoridae) or old world screwworm fly. CONCLUSION: Infestation of ocular and orbital tissues by fly larvae (ophthalmomyiasis) progresses rapidly and can completely destroy orbital tissues within days, especially in patients with poor general health. Treatment consists of removal of the larvae and surgical debridement. Ophthalmic Research Center 2011-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3306096/ /pubmed/22454736 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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