Chilblain-Like Lesions during COVID-19 Pandemic: The State of the Art

Andrea Bassi; Teresa Russo; Giuseppe Argenziano; Carlo Mazzatenta; Elisabetta Venturini; Iria Neri; Vincenzo Piccolo

doi:10.3390/life11010023

Chilblain-Like Lesions during COVID-19 Pandemic: The State of the Art

Life (Basel). 2021 Jan 2;11(1):23. doi: 10.3390/life11010023.

Authors

Andrea Bassi¹, Teresa Russo², Giuseppe Argenziano², Carlo Mazzatenta¹, Elisabetta Venturini³, Iria Neri⁴, Vincenzo Piccolo²

Affiliations

¹ UO Dermatologia Lucca-Azienda USL Toscana Nordovest, 55100 Lucca, Italy.
² Dermatology Unit, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 80131 Naples, Italy.
³ Infectious Diseases Unit, Meyer Children's University Hospital, 50139 Florence, Italy.
⁴ Division of Dermatology, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy.

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 infection has spread all over the world in the last year, causing millions of COVID-19 cases among humans with a large variability of symptoms and signs, including those on the skin. Among these, a contemporary cluster of chilblain-like lesions with no certain relationship with the infection has been reported. The aim of this paper is to delineate a profile of chilblain-like lesions and to establish the state-of-the-art knowledge about this new phenomenon.

Keywords: COVID-19; chilblain-like lesions; skin manifestation.