wound or traumatic myiasis is the infestation of animal and human orifices or wounds by dipterous larvae. it is more common in tropical and sub-tropical countries. c h rysomya bezziana is a major agent of wound myiasis throughout the tropical regions of the old world. in iran many cases of human myiasis due to c . bezziana were reported from south and south-east of country.this study reports a ...

PURPOSE To present a case of massive orbital myiasis. CASE REPORT An 87-year-old debilitated woman suffering from left ocular pain of four days' duration presented with a severely necrotized left orbit and several attached live larvae. The upper and lower eyelids and the eyeball were completely destroyed. She had history of eyelid surgery in the same eye due to a skin lesion, apparently some ...

Introduction: Nausea and vomiting after ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery is one of the most common and notable problems facing anesthesiologists in this area. This study was conducted to determine the effect of a pharyngeal pack on the severity of nausea, vomiting, and sore throat among patients after ear, pharynx, and throat surgeries.   Materials and Methods: This randomized clinical study ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and relative frequency of oral and pharyngeal cancers in Kermanshah, Iran, from March 1993 until March 2006.METHODS: The data used in this epidemiologic study were extracted directly from pathology records registered in 12 (all) public and private pathology centers of Kermanshah province during the 13-year study period. Th...

Amaury Coutinho, Brazil; Denise Mattos is a Social Worker at Servico Social, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife-PE, Brazil; Renato Lins is Bachelor in Science at NGO Amaury Coutinho; Habib Fraiha is Professor in Tropical Medicine at the Federal University of Para, Brazil Myiasis is a condition seen in both animals and humans caused by parasitic fly larvae feeding ...

Four cases of gastric or intestinal myiasis are reported. The cases contain 2 males (1 child 10 years old, and 1 adult 40 years old) and 2 females (1 girl 18 years old, and 1 adult 50 years old) from Minia Governorate, Southern Egypt. Three of them, including cases no. 1, 3, and 4, were gastric myiasis, and complained of offensive hematemesis of bright red blood. Minute moving worms, larvae of ...

Knotek Z. , O.A. Fischer , V. Jekl , Z. Knotková: Fatal Myiasis Caused by Calliphora vicina in Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) Acta Vet. Brno 2005, 74: 123-128. An extensive myiasis was observed in an adult male Hermann’s tortoise (Testudo hermanni) with a missing distal part of the right forelimb and an exposed right humerus. Haematological examinaton indicated very low haemoglobin level...