Background:
Although epidemic, novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection rarely affects pediatric
population. However, in the last months an increasing number of Italian pediatricians has reported the occurrence of
erythema pernio-like in children following a flu-like syndrome, after the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Objective:
To report cutaneous manifestation of SARS-CoV-2 infection in 4 adolescents.
Methods:
: Observational study reporting 4 adolescents with skin lesions, 2 weeks after the occurrence of a flu-like
syndrome.
Results:
Fourteen days after a flu-like syndrome, adolescents exhibited skin lesions to toes and feet. These lesions were
rounded, with blurred limits, with a 5-15 mm diameter, red-violaceous-bluish colored, sometimes resulting in bullous
lesions in correspondence of the central or apical portion, which tended to be covered with blackish crusts after evolution.
Lesions were also accompanied by pain of variable intensity and evolved within two or three weeks to self-resolution
without particular sequelae. In two patients, pharyngeal and nasal swabs were negative for SARS-CoV-2 infection, at the
presentation of skin lesions. After 2 months from clinical manifestations, patients were tested positive for SARS-CoV-2
antibodies.
Conclusions:
In pediatric and adolescent population, the occurrence of an erythema pernio-like after a flu-like syndrome
could be associated to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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