S.K. Livingston and the Maggot Therapy of Wounds
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Maggot Debridement Therapy in the Treatment of Nonhealing Chronic Wounds
Background: Maggot therapy utilizes freshly emerged, sterile larvae of the common greenbottle fly, Phaenicia (Lucilia) sericata, which secrete digestive enzymes that selectively dissolve necrotic tissue, disinfect the wound, and thus stimulate wound healing. Introduction: The purpose of this paper was to review the literature in an attempt to determine the efficacy of maggot debridement therapy...
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Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is an established method of debridement of nonhealing wounds. Despite intense clinical research about its efficacy and effects of substances produced by the larvae, growth and development of maggots in the wounds remain largely unexplored. In the present study, the bags with larvae (n = 52), which had been used to debride traumatic, ischemic, diabetic and venous...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0026-4075,1930-613X
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/162.4.296