Myiasis by <I>Dermatobia hominis</I>

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  • Sadamasa Hiroko
    Department of Dermatology Allergology, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital
  • Ikegami Nozomu
    Department of Dermatology Allergology, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital
  • Yasui Maho
    Department of Dermatology Allergology, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital
  • Yaguchi Hitoshi
    Department of Dermatology Allergology, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital
  • Hiruma Masataro
    Department of Dermatology Allergology, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital
  • Tsuruno Hisakazu
    Toshi Clinic
  • Shinonaga Satoshi
    Section of Enviromental Parasaitology, Graduate School Tokyo Medical & Dental University

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  • ヒトヒフバエによる皮膚ハエ症の1例

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A 69-year-old female, who returned from Costa Rica in February 2007, visited our hospital for an abdominal erythematous nodule. It appeared in her left abdomen after she returned to Japan, and it had been gradually increasing in its size. She visited a clinic and received the incision under the diagnosis of infected epidermal cyst. One day after incision, a fly larva came out from the nodule, which was classified to be a Dermatobia hominis. When an erythematous nodule like an infected epidermal cyst was found in the skin of the patient who came from central to south America, myiasis has to be included in the differential diagnosis.

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  • Hifu no kagaku

    Hifu no kagaku 7 (2), 249-252, 2008

    Meeting of Osaka Dermatological Association/Meeting of Keiji Dermatological Association

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