Description
impetigo: A pyoderma consisting of three forms of skin lesions having either a thick, adherent, recurrent, dirty yellow crust with an erythematous margin (common or superficial impetigo) or lessions which are superficial, thin-walled, and bullous as found in bullous impetigo. The lesions in bullous (staphylococcal) impetigo, which are always caused by S aureus, are superficial, thin-walled, and bullous.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode |
L12_IMPETIGO |
| Hospital Discharge registry |
ICD-10: L01, ICD-9: 684, ICD-8: 684|70708 |
| Cause of Death registry |
ICD-10: L01, ICD-9: 684, ICD-8: 684|70708 |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy |
3 |
| First defined in version |
DF2 |
Ontology