ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Symptoms or signs involving the skin
ME62 — Acute skin eruption of uncertain or unspecified nature
ME62.7 — Acute desquamating skin eruption
ICD-11 ME62.7 — Acute desquamating skin eruption
A provisional diagnosis for a skin eruption of unknown or uncertain nature which arises abruptly and in which desquamation (shedding of skin scales) is a prominent feature. This is seen characteristically in the later stages of many acute viral exanthemata but may also be seen in drug reactions and in unstable and erythrodermic psoriasis.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: