Did a spider bite cause these skin lesions?
A child presented stating he had been bitten on his left palm.
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Noah is an eight-year-old boy who presents with his grandmother for review of multiple pigmented skin lesions on his hands.
He states that he had been bitten by a spider on his left palm two weeks earlier, although he did not see the offending arachnid, and there was no apparent bite mark.
