ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Other bacterial diseases
1C43 — Actinomycetoma
ICD-11 1C43 — Actinomycetoma
Actinomycetoma is a chronic progressive subcutaneous infection caused by implantation of aerobic branching actinomycetes through a skin wound. These organisms are filamentous bacteria which live as saprophytes in soil or on plants; the commonest infecting agents are Nocardia brasiliensis, Actinomadura madurae and Streptomyces somaliensis. The earliest stage of infection is a firm painless nodule but with time the whole area becomes hard and swollen with multiple papules, pustules and draining sinuses on the skin surface. Extension to underlying bones and joints can result in gross deformity.
It includes 1 item.
- Mycetoma due to filamentous bacteria
It excludes 1 item.
- Eumycetoma (1F29)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: