Dermoscopy as an auxiliary method in the diagnosis of social wasp (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) stings

• Main Authors: Luiz Gustavo Martins da Silva (Author), Fred Bernardes Filho (Author), Maria Victoria Quaresma (Author), Elaine de Souza Pinto Leite (Author), Andresa de Oliveira Marteloso (Author), Natalia Ferreira Saldanha (Author), Grabriela Goncalves Brum (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We describe the case of a 32-year-old male patient that sought medical treatment complaining of severe pain in his second and third right-hand fingers. The symptoms had started two hours before. The hypotheses of spider bite, scorpion or insect sting and injury caused by a foreign body were consider...