Am J Emerg Med . Erythema nodosum-like rash in a COVID-19 patient: A case report

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Am J Emerg Med


. 2020 Jul 30;S0735-6757(20)30658-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.07.063. Online ahead of print.
Erythema nodosum-like rash in a COVID-19 patient: A case report


Nicole Sipfle DO ¹ , Rachel E Bridwell Md ² , Jamie Roper DO ²



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• PMID: 32828595
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.07.063

Abstract

Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral disease first described in Wuhan, China, which has quickly emerged as a global pandemic with a myriad of manifestations including dermatologic (Li My et al., n.d.; Gottlieb and Long, 2020 [1,2]). A variety of cutaneous symptoms have presented throughout various stages of the disease (Marzano, 2020; Recalcati, n.d.; Henry et al., n.d.; Fernandez-Nieto et al., n.d.; Quintana-Castanedo et al., n.d. [3-5,7,8]). We describe a case of a female patient who presented with an Erythema Nodosum-like exanthema likely secondary to COVID-19. The patient described tested positive for COVID-19 three days prior to presentation for the rash with minimal other symptoms of COVID-19. Given the high infectivity rate as well as multisystem presentation, it is important to continue to report on novel presentations of the virus for early identification and treatment of complications.

Keywords: COVID-19; Dermatology; Erythema nodosum; Rash.