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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| Fformat: | Erthygl |
| Iaith: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2019-11-01
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| Cyfres: | Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine |
| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kp3j4jk |
| Crynodeb: | 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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| ISSN: | 2474-252X |