key: cord-304813-10n1ol1g
authors: Piccolo, Vincenzo; Neri, Iria; Manunza, Francesca; Mazzatenta, Carlo; Bassi, Andrea
title: Chilblain‐like lesions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: should we really worry?
date: 2020-06-04
journal: Int J Dermatol
DOI: 10.1111/ijd.14993
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doc_id: 304813
cord_uid: 10n1ol1g

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread worldwide in a few months. 1, 2 In the emerging literature, skin seemed to be involved in only 0.2% of patients, and notations of cutaneous findings have been generically described as "rash". 3 During the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Italy, pediatric dermatologists received pictures from pediatricians reporting young patients with pernio-like lesions. 4 The clinical features appeared to be stereotypical, with the sudden onset of slightly painful or pruritic violaceous plaques and nodules, some- We actually think that after the first negative results of the screening program, the correlation of these lesions with the COVID-19 infection is far from being confirmed, so clinicians have not to worry parents, avoiding to forward urgently children to the nearest hospital to perform all the COVID examinations.

Evidently wider screening of symptomatic children will be necessary to definitively clarify this condition. 

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