Wound care. Medical professional caring for an open wound on the ankle of a patient at a wound care unit. The patient is undergoing maggot therapy, wh

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Wound care. Medical professional caring for an open wound on the ankle of a patient at a wound care unit. The patient is undergoing maggot therapy, which uses maggots to clean the wound. The maggots are packed and bound into the open wound where they eat only the dead tissue allowing the healthy tissue to heal.

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Photo credit: © ARNO MASSEE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: ankle, care, caring, close-, detail, doctor, equipment, foot, hospital, human, leg, maggot, medical, medicine, nurse, open, patient, people, person, personnel, staff, therapy, treating, treatment, unit, wound