ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Nutritional disorders
Undernutrition
5B56 — Vitamin C deficiency
5B56.0 — Scurvy
ICD-11 5B56.0 — Scurvy
Scurvy is a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in the diet. Vitamin C plays a central role in collagen and ground-substance formation, metabolism of aromatic amino acids (phenylalanine, tyrosine), reduction of folic acid to folinic acid and a broad range of biochemical redox reactions. Clinical features include perifollicular haemorrhages, ecchymoses, swollen bleeding gums, stomatitis and epistaxis.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
Diagnosis with code 5B56.0 contains 1 clarifying diagnosis:
- 3A03.2 — Scorbutic anaemia
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
The diagnosis is included in 1 another class.
- Scorbutic anaemia (3A03.2)