Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (L00)

• ICD-10 Index

  • Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00–L99)

    • Infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L08)

      • Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (L00)

        • L00 - Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome BILLABLE CODE

Clinical Information for Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (L00)

Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome - A disease of infants due to group 2 phage type 17 staphylococci that produce an epidermolytic exotoxin. Superficial fine vesicles and bullae form and rupture easily, resulting in loss of large sheets of epidermis.

Instructional Notations

Inclusion Terms Inclusion Terms
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• Ritter's disease

Use Additional Code Use Additional Code
The “use additional code” indicates that a secondary code could be used to further specify the patient’s condition. This note is not mandatory and is only used if enough information is available to assign an additional code.

• code to identify percentage of skin exfoliation L49

Type 1 Excludes Type 1 Excludes
A type 1 excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means "NOT CODED HERE!" An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note. An Excludes1 is used when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition.

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