Auricle perniosis as a manifestation of Covid‐19 infection
Ilaria Proietti, Ersilia Tolino, Nicoletta Bernardini, Alessandra Mambrin, Veronica Balduzzi, Anna Marchesiello, Simone Michelini, Cosmo Del Borgo, Nevena Skroza, Miriam Lichtner, Concetta Potenza
Abstract
Several cutaneous manifestations of Covid-19 infection have been described in literature being mostly erhytematous, morbilliform, varicelliform, petechial, and urticarial rashes.1,2 Furthermore, an outbreak of hands and foot chilblain-like lesions in young patients has been reported in Italy during Covid-19 pandemic.3 They are described as erhytemato-edematous red-purple papules that can evolve either in hemorrhagic blisters or in black crusts.4 In particular, Piccolo et al3 analyzed 63 patients with perniotic lesions: pharyngeal swab was performed in 11 patients and it was positive only in two of them. Mazzotta et al4 studied a few dozens of patients with chilblain-like lesions: only two of them were screened for Covid-19 and resulted positive