ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Symptoms or signs involving the skin
ME62 — Acute skin eruption of uncertain or unspecified nature
ME62.9 — Acute excoriation of skin
ICD-11 ME62.9 — Acute excoriation of skin
A provisional diagnosis for a skin eruption of unknown or uncertain nature which arises abruptly and consists of multiple excoriations. In the majority of cases the excoriation is secondary to intense pruritus arising either from an underlying systemic disorder such as cholestatic jaundice or from a pruritic skin disease such as eczema. In some cases, however, psychogenic factors may be responsible.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: