Case 8 Necrotic Skin Lesion

Goertemoeller, Sheila

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Sheila Goertemoeller⁶

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A 41-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a lesion on her left forearm. The patient suspected she was bitten 3 days prior by something while cleaning her attic. She subsequently developed a fever (103 °F), chills and myalgias throughout the course of the day. This chapter reviews possible causes of this patient’s symptomatology, including a thorough discussion of spider envenomation with focus on Loxosceles reclusa, commonly known as the brown recluse spider.

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Clinical Toxicologist, Pharmacist, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Drug and Poison Information Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
Sheila Goertemoeller

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Point of Care Content, Elsevier Clinical Solutions, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Leslie R. Dye (Editor-in-Chief) (Editor-in-Chief)
Department of Emergency Medicine, Divisions of Medical Toxicology and Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, USA
Christine Murphy
Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
Diane P. Calello
Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Medical Toxicology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Michael D. Levine
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Goertemoeller, S. (2017). Case 8 Necrotic Skin Lesion. In: Dye, L.R., Murphy, C., Calello, D.P., Levine, M.D., Skolnik, A. (eds) Case Studies in Medical Toxicology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56449-4_8

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