Case of the Month
Section Editor: Nicholas Stence, MD
Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
April 2021
A 68-year-old woman presented to the emergency department after a family member checked on the patient and found her in unlivable home conditions. Once she arrived at the emergency department, the patient had no acute complaints, but had a large, masslike open wound that covered the upper half of the patient's face/forehead with noted infestation of maggots on the infected skin.