Introduction:

COVID-19 is currently considered a florid pathology of mandatory multidisciplinary management by medical specialties. For the dermatologist it represents a diagnostic challenge, due to the heterogeneity of clinical descriptions found at cutaneous level in these patients, so it is important to be attentive to this health emergency, given that although the virus is not dermatotropic, every day there is more evidence of cutaneous lesions produced by the new coronavirus.

Objective:

to present a series of cases of patients with urticaria associated with COVID-19.

Case presentation:

the 3 cases were female patients, young women between 19 and 27 years of age, with a history of allergies in 2 of them, who developed urticarial wheals almost simultaneously with the rest of the symptoms with positive PCR of nasopharyngeal exudate for SARS-CoV-2, with satisfactory clinical evolution and remission of the symptoms on the seventh day.

Conclusions:

knowledge of the cutaneous manifestations allows to deepen in the still little-known aspects of COVID-19, to make a quicker diagnosis or even to serve as a prognostic marker. In the pandemic era, the diagnosis of infection should be considered in patients presenting with skin lesions, urticaria or angioedema with or without other symptoms and especially in those with atypical disease or with recent exposure to individuals infected by the virus.

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