ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Inflammatory dermatoses
Urticaria, angioedema and other urticarial disorders
EB01 — Inducible urticaria and angioedema
EB01.0 — Dermographism
ICD-11 EB01.0 — Dermographism
Dermographism is characterised by the development of short-lived itchy weals in response to stroking of the skin. The weals are typically linear. Symptomatic dermographism is triggered by light skin stroking or friction and is pruritic, whereas simple dermographism is a common physiological response to firm skin stroking and is not pruritic.
It includes 2 items.
- Factitious urticaria
- Dermatographic urticaria
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: