Maxillary infestation by Cochliomyia hominivorax larvae. First Ecuadorian report of debridement in maxillary gingival myiasis

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Juan Miguel Alemán Iñiguez
Santiago Reinoso Quezada

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The maxillary myiasis is a rare tropical disease, endemic in several areas of the world and typical of some mammals, the man isn’t exception. The objective is to report the surgical treatment of maxillary myasis, the methodology consisted of: direct anamnesis, physical examination, clinical and surgical report with bibliographic and review in the medicine evidence based for the discussion and conclusions. The work concluded with surgical scrub and complete extraction of the larvaes were placed into the oral cavity and the application the antilarvarie drug, invermectin in oral way, twice

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Alemán Iñiguez JM, Reinoso Quezada S. Maxillary infestation by Cochliomyia hominivorax larvae. First Ecuadorian report of debridement in maxillary gingival myiasis. REMCB [Internet]. 2017Aug.14 [cited 2024Jul.3];35(1-2):21-9. Available from: https://remcb-puce.edu.ec/remcb/article/view/247
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