ICD-11 classes
19 Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
Birth injury
KA43 — Birth injury to skin or soft tissues
KA43.2 — Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury
ICD-11 KA43.2 — Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury
Subcutaneous fat necrosis is a rare acute transient hypodermatitis that develops within first weeks of life in term infants.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 1 item.
- Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn (KC22.0)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: