ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Symptoms or signs involving the skin
ME64 — Non-specific cutaneous vascular signs
ME64.0 — Erythema
ICD-11 ME64.0 — Erythema
Redness of skin due to the presence of increased amounts of oxygenated haemoglobin within dilated skin capillaries. It may be due to localised or generalised inflammatory processes but may result from increased cutaneous blood flow following exertion or associated with pyrexia.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: