ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L80-L99 › L90 Atrophic disorders of skin › L90.5
L90.5
Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Pain
- Cicatrix
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > choroid
- Disorder > choroid > degeneration
- Degeneration, degenerative > chorioretinal
- Degeneration, degenerative > Bruch's membrane
- Cicatrix
- Disfigurement
- Scar, scarring
- Adherent > scar
- Cicatrix > skin
- Painful > scar NEC
- Atrophy, atrophic > scar
- Scar, scarring > painful
- Adherent > tendon in scar
- Fibrosis, fibrotic > skin
- Scar, scarring > adherent
- Scar, scarring > atrophic
- Cicatrix > specified site NEC
- Cicatrix > wrist, constricting
- Cicatrix > skin > postinfective
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L90.0 | Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus | Valid |
| L90.1 | Anetoderma of Schweninger-Buzzi | Valid |
| L90.2 | Anetoderma of Jadassohn-Pellizzari | Valid |
| L90.3 | Atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini | Valid |
| L90.4 | Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans | Valid |
| L90.6 | Striae atrophicae | Valid |
| L90.8 | Other atrophic disorders of skin | Valid |
| L90.9 | Atrophic disorder of skin, unspecified | Valid |