ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Mycoses
1F28 — Dermatophytosis
1F28.4 — Kerion
ICD-11 1F28.4 — Kerion
Kerion results from a severe host inflammatory response to dermatophyte infection of the hair follicles of the scalp or beard. It typically presents as a single painful, severely inflammatory, suppurating boggy mass and is most commonly a reaction to a zoophilic dermatophyte infection especially Trichophyton verrucosum (cattle ringworm) or Trichophyton mentagrophytes.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Dermatophytosis #15480