| Autor: |
Tandon, Pradeep, Kumar, Vinod, Srivastava, Amitabh, Chandra, Chetan, Garg, Jaishree |
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Medico-Legal Update; Jul-Dec2011, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p34-35, 2p |
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Oral Myiasis is a rare pathology in humans and is associated with poor oral hygiene, alcoholism, senility, halitosis and other conditions. A case of oral myiasis in a 59 year old female patient with psychological stress and low socioeconomic status suffering with ulceration in the right maxillary gingiva and tongue. It is a condition in which the soft tissues are invaded by the larvae of the flies. It occurs as a result of female flies depositing eggs or larvae on open wounds or larvae being accidentally ingested through contaminated food. The larvae hatch in the tissues and later migrate out of the tissues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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