Juan Fernando Ramón-Cuellar, Juan Armando Mejía-Cordovez, Gabriel Alexander Quiñones-Ossa, Juan Pablo Leal-Isaza, Maria Paula Vargas-Osorio, Juan Daniel Ramirez-Muñoz, Edgar G Ordóñez-Rubiano, Alexandra Porras- Ramirez, Diego Gómez- Amarillo, Fernando Hakim-Daccach
Postoperative complications, exemplified by surgical site infections, are commonplace in the realm of daily surgical interventions. Conversely, certain infectious entities, such as cerebral myiasis (CM), are distinctly rare. This report elucidates the clinical presentation of a 74-year-old female afflicted with a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistula, within the context of a preceding surgical microvascular decompression employing a suboccipital craniotomy approach. Notably, the course of evaluation and treatment unveiled an intraoperative manifestation of severe CM...
March 17, 2024: World Neurosurgery