ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Symptoms or signs involving the skin
ME63 — Chronic skin disorder of uncertain or unspecified nature
ME63.7 — Chronic excoriation of skin
ICD-11 ME63.7 — Chronic excoriation of skin
A provisional diagnosis for a chronic skin disorder of unknown or uncertain nature characterised by the presence of multiple excoriations. In some cases the excoriation is secondary to intense pruritus arising either from an underlying systemic disorder such as uraemia or from a pruritic skin disease such as eczema. In many 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: