CUTANEOUS MANIFESTATIONS IN COVID-19: PATHOGENETIC MECHANISMS AND CHALLENGES IN DIAGNOSTICS

Dalia Adukauskienė, Monika Kropaitytė, Edita Mašanauskienė Abstract Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a viral infection which traditionally presents with fever, dyspnea, cough, malaise, anosmia, and, recently, an increasing number of reports of skin damage related to Severe Acute Res­piratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Skin lesions may provide suspicion of COVID-19 and a ra­tional basis to test patients for…