A 28-year-old woman develops a painful, stellate Rash/”>Rash on her thigh after falling on sea rocks in Greece. What marine creature is the likely culprit?
A 28-year-old woman presented with a painful rash on her right thigh. Five days before presentation, she had been walking on sea rocks on an island in the Cyclades region of Greece when she fell, landing on her buttocks. She immediately felt a severe pain in her right thigh, and an itchy, red lesion developed. On physical examination at the current presentation, innumerable fine, erythematous, linear lesions in a stellate distribution, with central clearing, on the posterior right thigh were seen. By what marine animal did the patient most likely get stung?
