Dermatological Manifestations in Covid-19: A Systematic Review

Methods: This article is a systematic review of literature about dermatological manifestations in SARS-CoV-2 infection. The database used for this research were PubMed Central® (PMC), Literatura Latino-americana e do Caribe em Ciencias da Saude (LILACS) e Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). This search filters has been applied: articles published in 2020, descriptors only in the title or abstract and full text. After that, 34 articles were selected as base for this data research. Results: It was observed that urticaria is the most frequent manifestation, presented in 10 articles (71,4%) of 14 evaluated, followed by maculopapular eruptions, mentioned in 6 articles (42,8%), and itching, related in 5 articles (35,7%). In the case report analysis, specifically, it is possible to notice bigger prevalence of maculopapular lesions, mentioned in 8 case reports (40%), and urticarial, described in 7 case reports (35%). About the most affected parts by dermatological manifestations, stands out chest area, presented in 29 studies (85,3%), extremities, presented in 21 studies (61,8%), face, presented in 16 studies (47%) and oropharyngeal, presented in 10 studies (29,4%). Conclusion: concrete information about dermatological manifestations in COVID-19 is still unknown. Therefore, bigger studies are needed about these skin lesions to clarify pathophysiological knowledge of this virus with huge impact nowadays.