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Image 37 While swimming off the Riviera Maya coast of Mexico this patient cut her right elbow and then lay on the beach. One week later she noted these slightly itchy serpiginous lesions on her right elbow. The diagnosis is |
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Image 37 While swimming off the Riviera Maya coast of Mexico this patient cut her right elbow and then lay on the beach. One week later she noted these slightly itchy serpiginous lesions on her right elbow. The diagnosis is |
Image 37: This is a coral dermatitis caused by the elbow's impact on a "brain coral". She, in fact, had seen brain coral while scuba diving that day. The lesions resolved slowly over a couple of weeks with a steroid cream and then intermittantly reappeared when the cream was stopped. (See example of brain coral at: http://www.reefnews.com/reefnews/photos/corals/brain1.html