Skin signs resembling vascular acrosyndromes during the COVID‐19 outbreak in Italy
Giulio Tosti, Alessia Barisani, Paola Queirolo, Elisabetta Pennacchioli, Lucia Villa, A. M. Lodeserto, Sabina Vaccari
Abstract
Est ebanez et al. recently published the case of a 28-yearold woman affected by COVID-19, who presented with confluent erythematous, yellowish papules on both heels. After 3 days, the lesions persisted and became hardened erythematous plaques. 1 This presentation was not observed in 18 (20.4%) of 88 patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in Lecco, Italy, who exhibited erythematous rash (n = 14), widespread urticaria (n = 3) and chickenpox-like vesicles (n = 1). 2 However, no clinical images were available. 2 Alramthan and Aldaraji 3 also reported a patient with COVID-19 with cutaneous lesions clinically resembling chilblains, with clinical pictures. The French