ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Pyogenic bacterial infections of the skin or subcutaneous...
1B75 — Deep bacterial folliculitis or pyogenic abscess of the skin
1B75.4 — Chronic deep bacterial folliculitis
ED81.0 — Folliculitis cruris pustulosa atrophicans
ICD-11 ED81.0 — Folliculitis cruris pustulosa atrophicans
A folliculitis prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa due to the custom of applying of greasy ointments to the lower legs. It presents as an inflammatory folliculitis which may result in follicular scarring and atrophy.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: