ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Parasitic diseases
Infestations by ectoparasites
1G01 — Myiasis
1G01.3 — Cutaneous myiasis
ICD-11 1G01.3 — Cutaneous myiasis
The infestation of the skin or subcutaneous tissues by the larvae of certain flies (Phormia regina, Cordylobia anthropophaga, Cochliomyia hominivorax, C. macellaria, Wohlfahrtia vigil, W. meigeni, W. opaca, Dermatobia hominis, Sarcophaga krameri). characterised by a painful boil-like lesion containing one or more larvae with severe pruritus and local destruction of tissue.
It includes 1 item.
- Wound myiasis
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: