Swimming Patient Develops Patches; IM Resident Uses VisualDx Images to Compare & Diagnose

Rayan, an internal medicine resident at Duke, describes a time he used VisualDx’s medical image library to arrive at the correct diagnosis for his patient.

“35 yo F AA with linear erythematous patches on her dorsal forearm. went swimming in wilmington recently. dx; jellyfish bite. VisualDx had similar pictures of jelly bites symptomatic treatment, gave hydrocortisone”

*Jellyfish sting lesion pictured here is not patient in story. View more jellyfish sting pictures in VisualDx.

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