Abstract

SANCHEZ, Magda Carolina; CHUAIRE, Lilián; NARVAEZ, Raúl  and  SEGURA, Nidya Alexandra. Biosurgery: using necrophagous larvae for healing wounds. Larval therapy. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2004, vol.2, n.2, pp.156-164. ISSN 1692-7273.

Larval therapy is a technique that allows the use of larva of some diptera species on chronic wounds or localized infected focuses, in order to promote the affected tissue restoration. The treatment velocity and efficacy, with almost no healthy tissue loses during the process, have made larval therapy (sometimes called biosurgery) a viable alternative for healing wounds associated with entities as diabetic foot, venous ulcers, cutaneous chronic ulcers and burns, and some benign tumors, abscesses and osteomyelitis. Although modern medicine has been, in many cases, reticent on the application of this kind of therapies, events as antibiotic resistance and alterations in cicatrization process in chronic wounds, have modified the respective initial point of view of many doctors.

Keywords : Insects; surgery; therapy; history; larva.

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