COVID toes: Pernio-like lesions

Katherine T Burke; Karen Sylvia McGinnis; Vesna Petronic-Rosic

doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2021.01.016

COVID toes: Pernio-like lesions

Clin Dermatol. 2021 May-Jun;39(3):380-383. doi: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2021.01.016. Epub 2021 Feb 2.

Authors

Katherine T Burke¹, Karen Sylvia McGinnis², Vesna Petronic-Rosic³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health, Washington, DC, USA.
² Department of Dermatology, Hawthorn Medical Associates, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Dermatology, Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: vp406@georgetown.edu.

Abstract

More than 40 million people have been infected with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 since the first infection was reported in December 2019 from Wuhan, China. Multiple reports of cutaneous manifestations of the virus have been described, including a pernio-like eruption, recently termed "COVID toes." We have reviewed the published case series on "COVID toes" in addition to studies identifying possible pathogenic mechanisms behind the eruption.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Chilblains* / diagnosis
Chilblains* / epidemiology
Exanthema*
Humans
SARS-CoV-2
Toes