Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (Nov 2019)

Sonographic Detection of Cutaneous Myiasis

  • Elizabeth Nicholas,
  • Kevin Gaskin,
  • Susan Wojcik

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.7.43250
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 4

Abstract

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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.