{"title":"Mastoid Cavity Myiasis In A Child: A Case Report","authors":"J. Gulia, S. Yadav, A. Khaowas","doi":"10.5580/6b6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Myiasis is a disease caused the larvae of the Diptera or two-winged flies. There are only sporadic reports in the literature concerning human ear myiasis. A case of aural myiasis in a child operated for unsafe chronic suppurative otitis media is being reported. Five live maggots and a dead fly was removed from the external auditory canal and the mastoidectomy cavity","PeriodicalId":331725,"journal":{"name":"The Internet Journal of Tropical Medicine","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Internet Journal of Tropical Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5580/6b6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Myiasis is a disease caused the larvae of the Diptera or two-winged flies. There are only sporadic reports in the literature concerning human ear myiasis. A case of aural myiasis in a child operated for unsafe chronic suppurative otitis media is being reported. Five live maggots and a dead fly was removed from the external auditory canal and the mastoidectomy cavity