Postoperative cerebral myiasis: A rare cause of wound dehiscence in developing countries

BACKGROUND: Cerebral myiasis is a rare parasitic disease, especially in postoperative neurological surgery. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a case of postoperative myiasis in a patient who underwent a craniotomy for resection of metastatic melanoma, evolving with wound dehiscence due to myiasis in the o...

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Autores principales: Navarro, Juliano N., Alves, Raphael V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4926550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27413581
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.184581
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description BACKGROUND: Cerebral myiasis is a rare parasitic disease, especially in postoperative neurological surgery. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a case of postoperative myiasis in a patient who underwent a craniotomy for resection of metastatic melanoma, evolving with wound dehiscence due to myiasis in the operative wound. CONCLUSION: Myiasis infestation should be a differential diagnosis of surgical wound dehiscence, particularly when the classic signs of inflammation are not present and computed tomography of the brain shows signs suggestive of this disease entity.
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spelling pubmed-49265502016-07-13 Postoperative cerebral myiasis: A rare cause of wound dehiscence in developing countries Navarro, Juliano N. Alves, Raphael V. Surg Neurol Int Case Report BACKGROUND: Cerebral myiasis is a rare parasitic disease, especially in postoperative neurological surgery. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a case of postoperative myiasis in a patient who underwent a craniotomy for resection of metastatic melanoma, evolving with wound dehiscence due to myiasis in the operative wound. CONCLUSION: Myiasis infestation should be a differential diagnosis of surgical wound dehiscence, particularly when the classic signs of inflammation are not present and computed tomography of the brain shows signs suggestive of this disease entity. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4926550/ /pubmed/27413581 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.184581 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Surgical Neurology International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Postoperative cerebral myiasis: A rare cause of wound dehiscence in developing countries
title_fullStr Postoperative cerebral myiasis: A rare cause of wound dehiscence in developing countries
title_full_unstemmed Postoperative cerebral myiasis: A rare cause of wound dehiscence in developing countries
title_short Postoperative cerebral myiasis: A rare cause of wound dehiscence in developing countries
title_sort postoperative cerebral myiasis: a rare cause of wound dehiscence in developing countries
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4926550/
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