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Aside from the widely reported respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms, there are now increasing reports of cutaneous manifestations in COVID-19 patients.

The aim of this study was to estimate how common cutaneous manifestations are in COVID-19 patients.

The study was carried out in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines. The authors performed a detailed literature search on PubMed and Embase from 1 December 2019 to 1 May 2020. Studies that reported cutaneous manifestations in COVID-19 patients were included in this study. In total, 2086 articles were selected.

The authors found that the prevalence of cutaneous manifestations in COVID-19 patients was 5.69%. They also found other related manifestations, such as urticaria, chilblain-like lesions, livedo reticularis and finger/toe gangrene.

The authors concluded that their study might be premature to conclude the prevalence of the cutaneous manifestations during the ongoing pandemic, but stated that their report may encourage other physicians to perform investigations into cutaneous manifestations in COVID-19 patients to estimate the final prevalence.