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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Spider bite caused by a brown recluse spider: A 23-year-old man presented with an 18-hour history of localized pain and skin discoloration after having been bitten by an insect. The surrounding redness and central area of dying tissue are suggestive of a brown recluse spider poisoning (envenomation). (Photographs used with permission of James S. Walker, DO.) Brown recluse spider. (L.S.)

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