ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Genetic and developmental disorders affecting the skin
Genetically-determined epidermolysis bullosa

ICD-11 Genetically-determined epidermolysis bullosa

Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is the name given to a heterogeneous group of blistering disorders which in the majority of cases are due to genetically-determined defects in structural proteins of the epidermis and dermo-epidermal junction. The genetic forms are to be distinguished from the immunobullous disorder, epidermolysis bullosa acqiusita (qv).

The diagnosis includes nothing.

Diagnosis contains 5 clarifying diagnoses:

1. EC30 — Epidermolysis bullosa simplex
2. EC31 — Junctional epidermolysis bullosa
3. EC32 — Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
4. EC33 — Syndromic epidermolysis bullosa
5. EC3Z — Epidermolysis bullosa