Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report

Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report

Narges Malih, Ghazal Hajinasrollah, Marjan Zare, Mahboobeh Taheri

We presently report the case of COVID-19 in a 38-year-old male who had come to the primary health care clinic of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, which specializes in the COVID-19 epidemic. He reported having fatigue, myalgia, fever, rash, and loss of taste and smell. The physical findings were maculopapular rash over his trunk, inguinal regions, and left arm, erythema of larynx with an aphthous lesion on left tonsil, he did not have a fever, and respiratory distress symptoms. There were no changes regarding COVID-19 in the spiral lung CT scan. However, the result of PCR for COVID-19 RNA was positive.

2020

infections, covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, Rash

10.1159/000509994

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Dermatology