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Image IQ: Joint Pain and Rash

A few weeks after a camping trip in Connecticut, a 24-year-old woman went to her local urgent care center with flu-like symptoms of myalgia, arthralgias, headache, and fever. She reported having an annular lesion on her leg shortly after the trip. Can you diagnose this patient?

lyme disease bullseye rash

Select one of the following as a possible diagnosis.

  1. Erythema multiforme
  2. Pityriasis rosea
  3. Lyme disease
  4. Tinea corporis

Use the dfferential builder in VisualDx to guide your decision.


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