Oral and cutaneous manifestations of covid-19 in pediatric patients

ABSTRACT COVID-19 began in December 2019 in Wuhan City, China, and on March 11, 2020 it was classified by the World Health Organization as a pandemic. It is an asymptomatic infection that can progress to severe respiratory conditions. In adults, it is more prevalent, but is also observed in children, with the occurrence of extra respiratory symptoms, such as oral and cutaneous manifestations. This literature review aims to report the oral and cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 in pediatric patients. The bibliographic search strategy was carried out in the PubMed, SciELO and Bireme databases on August 1, 2020, using MeSH Terms “COVID-19”; “Child”; “Oral Manifestations”; “Skin Manifestations”; “Ageusia”; “Dysgeusia” and corresponding Decs, and also manual search, without language restriction. The stages of search, screening, selection, evaluation of studies and data extraction were performed by four independent reviewers. Nine studies that met the eligibility criteria were identified. The most cited oral and cutaneous manifestations were, respectively, taste dysfunction in adolescents and erythematous eruption in extremities and trunk. Health professionals should be aware of these manifestations, however, this is a recent theme in the literature, and more careful studies with greater strength of evidence still need to be performed.

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Main Authors:	MORAES,Mayara Faria de, NATALINO,Yasmim dos Reis, HOLANDA,Andressa Feller, SOUZA SOBRINHO,Hellen Ferreira de, SARMENTO,Lilian Citty, GOMES,Ana Paula Martins, SANGLARD,Luciana Faria
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic 2021
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-86372021000100501
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