I'd like to thank CMAJ for printing Robert Slinger and Theodore Scholten's article about the boy with a botfly infestation.1 I experienced a similar history for 11 weeks after my vacation. The correct diagnosis had been missed, and I was booked for removal of a sebaceous cyst. Then my husband, who is also a physician, read the case report and, suspecting that a botfly infestation might be the problem, extracted a 2.4-cm larva from my scalp.
If one of the reasons for printing unusual case studies is to help physicians, then this article certainly filled the bill. I just never suspected that I would be the patient!
Naomi Sato General Practitioner Mississauga, Ont.
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