Escharotic lesion after a "brown recluse spider bite".(Photo Quiz)(Clinical report)

From: American Family Physician | Date: June 15, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

A 63-year-old woman presented with what she thought was a brown recluse spider bite received 10 days earlier. After noticing a small, painless, nonpruritic, red bump on her upper back, she surmised that a spider had bitten her, although she did not see a spider at the time. The following day she applied a "black salve" she had learned about in a local traditional medicines class. A black eschar soon developed, and the lesion became progressively pruritic.

Her medical history was remarkable for a basal cell carcinoma, excised from a separate location on her back seven years ...

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