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Maggots in the Intercostal Drain: Case Report of a Rare Presentation with a Brief Review of Literature

Maggots are dipterous larvae of flies. Infestation of vertebrate animals (including humans) by maggots is termed as Myiasis. Warm and Humid climate, low socio-economic status, lack of knowledge and poor living conditions, malignant wounds predispose the cancer patients to maggot infestation in India...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Mayank, Rao, Seema Rajesh, Salins, Naveen, Singhai, Pankaj, Rao, Krithika S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8655648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34898938
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJPC_428_20
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author Gupta, Mayank
Rao, Seema Rajesh
Salins, Naveen
Singhai, Pankaj
Rao, Krithika S.
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description Maggots are dipterous larvae of flies. Infestation of vertebrate animals (including humans) by maggots is termed as Myiasis. Warm and Humid climate, low socio-economic status, lack of knowledge and poor living conditions, malignant wounds predispose the cancer patients to maggot infestation in India. Apart from infestation in the wounds; oral, ophthalmic, nasal, aural, enteric, urogenital, trachea-pulmonary and rectal myiasis have been reported. Maggot infestation of the Intercostal drain (ICD) container without associated pleural myiasis is an extremely rare entity. We describe a rare case report of maggots in the ICD in a patient with metastatic chondrosarcoma femur with ICD in situ for malignant pleural effusion. Early detection and management are the keys to prevent the catastrophic complication of pleural myiasis.
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spelling pubmed-86556482021-12-09 Maggots in the Intercostal Drain: Case Report of a Rare Presentation with a Brief Review of Literature Gupta, Mayank Rao, Seema Rajesh Salins, Naveen Singhai, Pankaj Rao, Krithika S. Indian J Palliat Care Case Report Maggots are dipterous larvae of flies. Infestation of vertebrate animals (including humans) by maggots is termed as Myiasis. Warm and Humid climate, low socio-economic status, lack of knowledge and poor living conditions, malignant wounds predispose the cancer patients to maggot infestation in India. Apart from infestation in the wounds; oral, ophthalmic, nasal, aural, enteric, urogenital, trachea-pulmonary and rectal myiasis have been reported. Maggot infestation of the Intercostal drain (ICD) container without associated pleural myiasis is an extremely rare entity. We describe a rare case report of maggots in the ICD in a patient with metastatic chondrosarcoma femur with ICD in situ for malignant pleural effusion. Early detection and management are the keys to prevent the catastrophic complication of pleural myiasis. Scientific Scholar 2021-11-24 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8655648/ /pubmed/34898938 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJPC_428_20 Text en © 2021 Published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of Indian Journal of Palliative Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 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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Gupta, Mayank
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Salins, Naveen
Singhai, Pankaj
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Maggots in the Intercostal Drain: Case Report of a Rare Presentation with a Brief Review of Literature
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title_short Maggots in the Intercostal Drain: Case Report of a Rare Presentation with a Brief Review of Literature
title_sort maggots in the intercostal drain: case report of a rare presentation with a brief review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8655648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34898938
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJPC_428_20
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