ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Inflammatory dermatoses
Scarring or sclerosing inflammatory dermatoses
EB61 — Morphoea
EB61.1 — Linear morphoea

ICD-11 EB61.1 — Linear morphoea

Linear morphoea is a form of morphoea which usually present in childhood or adolescence and is usually unilateral, affecting a limb with a linear induration of skin, subcutis and occasionally underlying muscle and bone. It may also affect the scalp and forehead ("en coup de sabre") producing a depressed scar likened to a healed sabre wound, with sclerosis of the skin and alopecia of affected scalp.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.