Reflectance Confocal Microscopy of Skin after the Sting of the Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca

• Main Authors: Giovanni Paolino (Author), Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola (Author), Riccardo Pampena (Author), Vittoria Giulia Bianchi (Author), Santo Raffaele Mercuri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Jellyfish are aquatic animals of the phylum Cnidaria found in seas all over the world. They are characterized by the presence of cnidocytes, cells that contain a secretory organelle, the cnidocyst, mainly used for predation and defense purposes. An adult female patient presented to our Unit of Derma...