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The use of maggots in head and neck necrotizing fasciitis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

Christopher Dunn ,
Ullas Raghavan  and
A. G. Pfleiderer
Christopher Dunn
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Edith Cavell Hospital, Peterborough, UK
Ullas Raghavan
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Edith Cavell Hospital, Peterborough, UK
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Abstract

Historically maggots have been used to clean necrotic war wounds. With the ready availability of sterile maggots, they are being used increasingly in surgical practice.

Although maggots have most frequently been employed in the management of necrotic wounds and ulcers involving the lower limb, we have identified a particularly useful application in the head and neck and describe a case in which maggots played a significant part in the successful treatment of a florid necrotizing cervical fasciitis in a patient, who was unfit for repeated surgical debridement.

Keywords

LarvaFasciitisNecrotizingHeadNeck
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 116 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 70 - 72
Copyright
© Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2002

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