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Lessons From the First Wave of the Pandemic: Skin Features of COVID-19 Can Be Divided Into Inflammatory and Vascular Patterns
- Source :
- Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery. 25:169-176
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- This review examines the clinical, morphological, and systemic factors related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cutaneous manifestations. The EMBASE, Medline, and Pubmed Central databases were searched from February 1, 2020 until April 25, 2020, using the search words “(COVID-19 OR SARS-CoV-2 OR coronavirus-19) AND (skin OR cutaneous OR dermatologic)”. Cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 were included. The cutaneous manifestations can be classified into 2 types. Patients with inflammatory reactions consisted of morbilliform, varicella-like, urticarial eruptions, and vesiculobullous manifestations. These manifestations were mainly found on the trunk, limbs, and faces of patients and had mainly positive COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction findings (97.7%). Furthermore, there were 516 patients with acral vascular lesions: chilblains, livedo lesions, cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis, and other noninflammatory purpura. These were often nonpruritic (88%) and not seen in severe disease (88.7%). The cutaneous lesions have potential for early diagnosis of COVID-19 and prevention of disease transmission. The implications of COVID-19 in the field of dermatology continue to evolve as more clinical data becomes available.
- Subjects :
- Livedo
medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
Dermatology
medicine.disease
Trunk
Morbilliform
030207 dermatology & venereal diseases
03 medical and health sciences
Purpura
0302 clinical medicine
Pandemic
medicine
Surgery
030212 general & internal medicine
medicine.symptom
Vasculitis
Chilblains
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16157109 and 12034754
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f22424de0097d0301581c13135877624