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Relax from the holiday on the edge of the lagoon : turquoise waters and red legs ! Volume 29, issue 2, Avril-Mai-Juin 2019

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Authors
1 2e Antenne médicale spécialisée de la 1re CSS, quai Jean-Jaurès, 83430 St-Mandrier, France
2 151e Antenne médicale du 9e CMA, St-Mandrier
3 SMHEP HIA Sainte-Anne, bd Ste-Anne, 83800 Toulon, France
4 Dermatologie, HIA Sainte-Anne, Toulon, France
* Correspondance

We report a case of livedo reticularis of the lower limbs in a 30-year-old woman scuba diver after a diving session. Consideration of the differential diagnoses, the clinical picture, and the course of the symptoms led to a diagnosis of cutaneous decompression sickness. This accident, which resolved favorably in this scuba diver without any right-to-left shunt, is an alarm signal that calls for her to comply strictly with safety rules before resuming scuba diving, to avoid a more serious accident.