Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis

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.

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Autores principales: Nicholas, Elizabeth, Gaskin, Kevin, Wojcik, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
Materias:
Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6861044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31763611
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.7.43250
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spelling pubmed-68610442019-11-22 Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis Nicholas, Elizabeth Gaskin, Kevin Wojcik, Susan Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine 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. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6861044/ /pubmed/31763611 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.7.43250 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Nicholas et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Nicholas, Elizabeth
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Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis
title Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis
title_full Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis
title_fullStr Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis
title_full_unstemmed Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis
title_short Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis
title_sort sonographic detection of cutaneous myiasis
topic Images in Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6861044/
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