Prasanna Kumar S, Ravikumar A, Somu L, Vijaya Prabhu P, Mundakannan Subbaiya Periyasamy Subbaraj Rajavel
Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Reseach Institute, Porur, Chennai 600116, India.
Case Rep Otolaryngol. 2011;2011:303510. doi: 10.1155/2011/303510. Epub 2011 Dec 20.
"Myiasis" is considered in Hindu mythology as "God's punishment for sinners." It is known to infest live human or animal tissue. Literature abounds with reports of myiasis affecting the nasal cavity, ear, nonhealing ulcers, exophytic malignant growth, and cutaneous tissue. But report of myiasis of the tracheal stoma is rare. Only a few cases of tracheal myiasis have been reported in literature. We report a case of tracheostomal myiasis in an elderly male. The species which had infested the stoma was identified as Chrysomya bezziana, an obligate parasite. This is to our knowledge the first case report of an obligate parasite (Chrysomya bezziana) infestation of the tracheostoma from India.
在印度神话中，“蝇蛆病”被视为“上帝对罪人的惩罚”。已知其会侵袭人类或动物的活体组织。文献中充斥着关于蝇蛆病影响鼻腔、耳朵、不愈合溃疡、外生性恶性肿瘤和皮肤组织的报道。但气管造口处蝇蛆病的报道却很罕见。文献中仅报道过少数几例气管蝇蛆病病例。我们报告一例老年男性气管造口处蝇蛆病病例。侵袭造口处的物种被鉴定为嗜人锥蝇，一种专性寄生虫。据我们所知，这是印度首例关于专性寄生虫（嗜人锥蝇）侵袭气管造口的病例报告。
