Acral cutaneous lesions in the time of COVID‐19
Sebastiano Recalcati, Tania Barbagallo, L.A. Frasin, Francesca Prestinari, Anna Cogliardi, M.C. Provero, Emanuele Dainese, Alice Vanzati, Fabrizio Fantini
Abstract
Dear Editor, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a pandemic condition, yet little is known about its dermatologic manifestations. We report here on peculiar (perniosis-like) skin lesions, unreported in the previous years, observed in young outpatients visited in our dermatologic unit in the last 4 weeks of COVID-19 pandemic (March-April 2020). Similar cases were referred to us in the same period by paediatricians and dermatologists from Italy and European countries.
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MedicineCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Unit (ring theory)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)University hospital2019-20 coronavirus outbreakDermatologyFamily medicinePathologyPsychologyDiseaseOutbreakInfectious disease (medical specialty)Mathematics educationDermatological and COVID-19 studiesParvovirus B19 Infection StudiesTumors and Oncological Cases