Ophthalmomyiasis.
Ophthalmomyiasis is a rare condition. Here two such patients, one of 70-year-old male farmer with history of neglected trauma presented with painful swelling with sinus of right orbit and the second one of 65-year-old female destitute who presented with fungating mass near the medial canthus of left eye with pain and bleeding are reported. All the maggots were removed after applying ether.
Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata 700073.
Pradyot Narayan
PN
Biswas
Sanjay Kumar Daulat
SK
Thakur
Hiranmoy
H
Mukherjee
Gautam
G
Bhaduri
D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D009198:Myiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology