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Photograph of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) taken by the patient's wife after the patient's snakebite.
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He was bitten on the dorsum of his right hand by a positively identified 6-foot long diamondback rattlesnake (Figure 1).
Fang marks located on the patient's right upper extremity with local tissue damage, edema, ecchymoses, and mottling.
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His right upper extremity was noted to have fang marks 2.5 cm apart in the first dorsal webspace (Figure 2).