Ophthalmomyiasis
Biswas, P.N.; Thakur, S.K.D.; Mukherjee, H.; Bhaduri, G.
Journal of the Indian Medical Association 103(10): 539; 542
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5847 PMID: 16498758 Document Number: 587434
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.