Mastoid Cavity Myiasis In A Child: A Case Report

Abstract

Myiasis is a disease caused the larvae of the Diptera or two-winged flies. There are only sporadic reports in the literature concerning human ear myiasis. A case of aural myiasis in a child operated for unsafe chronic suppurative otitis media is being reported. Five live maggots and a dead fly was removed from the external auditory canal and the mastoidectomy cavity