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Dermatólogo. CEO Gavín Dermatólogos.
Apr 29, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read
It is an enormous pleasure to be part of this #paper: #COVID-PIEL, the Spanish muticentric study of the #cutaneous manifestation of #COVID19 has just been published in the prestigious journal British Journal of Dermatology! 375 patients included! Conclusions here 👇 (#thread) A new classification of #skin manifestations of #COVID19 is proposed: 1. Acral areas of erythema-oedema with some vesicles or pustules (19%); 2. Other vesicular eruptions (9%); 3 Urticarial lesions (19%); 4. Other maculopapules (47%) and 5. Livedo or necrosis (6%)
Apr 12, 2020 10 tweets 11 min read
Dermatologist are seeing more and more #skin symptoms related to #COVID19 . Acral lesions (i.e. hands and feet) are particularly frequent, specially in #children and #youngadult with no or few COVID symptoms. After seeing many cases, here is my vision: #Thread 👇 I think that these kind of lesions can be classified in four types. 1. Chilblain-like lesions, which are the most described, usually affecting many fingers / toes, either symmetrically or not. Pruritic and/or painful.