ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Certain skin disorders attributable to infection or...
Certain skin disorders attributable to bacterial infection
Dermatoses due to certain filamentous bacteria
1C1B.1 — Cutaneous nocardiosis

ICD-11 1C1B.1 — Cutaneous nocardiosis

Cutaneous nocardiosis may be due to direct infection of the skin where it presents either as a solitary cold abscess or as a lymphangitic process in which infection spreads up lymphatic channels to form a linear array of suppurative nodules. Skin involvement is also present in a third of cases of systemic nocardiosis.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.

The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:

• Nocardiosis #432