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Abstract COVID-19 is an inflammatory disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which can manifest as a broad spectrum of symptoms ranging from few or no symptoms to severe pneumonia that may evolve to acute respiratory distress syndrome and death. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic the proportion of confirmed cases among children was relatively small and it was thought that children were rarely affected by SARS-CoV-2. Subsequent studies have consistently shown that children and adolescents are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, yet a large percentage of children are either asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic. Although it primarily affects the respiratory system, increasing reports imply that SARS-CoV-2 has extra pulmonary manifestations, |