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ReviewSeminars in oncology2020

Going viral: A brief history of Chilblain-like skin lesions ("COVID toes") amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paul R Massey, Krystal M Jones

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Review in Seminars in oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pediatric COVID toes and fingers.Clinics in dermatology
    Pooled it
  3. COVID-19 Toes and Other Skin Lesions During the Pandemic: Emerging Entities?The international journal of lower extremity wounds · 2022
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  4. When the clock ticks wrong with COVID-19.Clinical and translational medicine · 2022
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  9. Cutaneous Manifestations of COVID-19 in the Lower Limbs: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  13. "COVID Toes" in Three Siblings.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2021
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  15. From cellular function to global impact: the vascular perspective on COVID-19.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Paul R MasseyDepartment of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Krystal M JonesDermatology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: krystal.jones@childrens.harvard.edu.
Boston Children's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of the COVID-19 global pandemic, is notable for an expanding list of atypical manifestations including but not limited to coagulopathies, renal dysfunction, cardiac injury and a multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. In addition, SARS-CoV-2 has been purportedly linked to multiple cutaneous manifestations, among them chilblain-like skin lesions, also known as "COVID toes." Driven in large part by social media, dermatologists around the world reported a dramatic increase in the frequency of chilblain-like diagnoses early in the COVID-19 pandemic, often in members of the same family. This phenomenon has been captured in a rapidly expanding medical literature. As of this writing, the chilblain-like presentation has been reported to occur predominantly in younger, minimally symptomatic patients and to emerge late in the COVID-19 disease course. Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection is not consistently found when these patients are evaluated by polymerase chain reaction. A robust antiviral immune response in young patients that induces microangiopathic changes has been posited as a mechanism. Herein we review the rapid evolution of the literature regarding chilblain-like skin lesions early in the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Indexed as

ChilblainsCOVID-19FingersHumansPandemicsSkinSkin DiseasesToesChilblain-like lesionsChilblainsCOVID-19Cutaneous manifestationsPernio

Identifiers

PMID32736881
PMCPMC7245293
OpenAlexW3028251254

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