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Eosinophilic pleural effusion in cutaneous myiasis
R B Uttamchandani1, L M Trigo, R J Poppiti
1Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Fla.
Southern Medical Journal
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
We have reported the case of a 54-year-old man with recurrent painful migratory subcutaneous nodules associated with marked blood eosinophilia and an eosinophilic pleural effusion. The entire syndrome was subsequently determined to be due to cutaneous myiasis caused by the larvae of Hypoderma lineatum, the cattle botfly. Infestation by this or other dipterous fly larvae should be among the parasitic diseases considered in the differential diagnosis of any patient with similar symptoms.