Biosurgery: use of larvae of necrophage insects in wound healing. The larval therapy

Abstract

Larval therapy is a technique that allows the useof larva of some diptera species on chronicwounds or localized infected focuses, in order topromote the affected tissue restoration. Thetreatment velocity and efficacy, with almost nohealthy tissue loses during the process, havemade larval therapy (sometimes calledbiosurgery) a viable alternative for healingwounds associated with entities as diabetic foot,venous ulcers, cutaneous chronic ulcers andburns, and some benign tumors, abscesses andosteomyelitis.Although modern medicine has been, in manycases, reticent on the application of this kind oftherapies, events as antibiotic resistance andalterations in cicatrization process in chronicwounds, have modified the respective initialpoint of view of many doctors.

Keywords

• Insect
• surgery
• therap
• history
• larva.