Cutaneous manifestations in COVID 19 patient: A case report

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a current, ongoing life-threatening crisis and it has become a global public health emergency. The early diagnosis and management of the disease remains a major challenge. Although most patients with COVID-19 manifest fever and respiratory tract symptoms, SARS-CoV-2 infection may also involve other organs/systems and present with extra-respiratory manifestations. Occasionally, these extra-respiratory clinical expressions represent the initial presentation of SARS-CoV-2 infection, prior to fever or respiratory manifestations. Cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 disease have not yet been fully described. Some skin disorders in COVID-19 might result in missed diagnosis. An important question is whether the dermatological problem in COVID-19 has any clinical impact on diagnosis and treatment of disease.We describe this unusual case report of the extra-respiratory manifestations of COVID-19 in order to help clinicians to better understand the range of clinical presentations associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, allowing appropriate management of this disease. *Correspondence to: Elena Barbagelata, department of internal Medicine, Lavagna General Hospital, Via don Bobbio 43, 16033, Genoa, Italy, E-mail: elenabarbagelata@yahoo.it