Systemic Medications of Dermatological Importance in COVID-19

September 2020 | Volume 19 | Issue 9 | Original Article | 889 | Copyright © September 2020


Published online August 21, 2020

Robert A. Schwartz MD MPH DSc (Hon) FRCP (Edin),a Aseem Sharma MD,b Torello Lotti,c Jacek C. Szepietowski MD,d Sunmeet Sandhu MD,e Mohamad Goldust MDf

aRutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ bSkin Saga Centre for Dermatology, Mumbai, India cUniversity of Studies Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy dWroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland eArmed Forces Medical College, Pune, India fUniversity Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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AUTHOR CORRESPONDENCE

Mohamad Goldust MD mohamad.goldust@usb.ch