View source for Infection of skin or subcutaneous (soft) tissue, NOS

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| OldDxArticle = Soft Tissue Infection (includes Cellulitis)
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| ICD10 Code=L08
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{{ICD10 category|Skin}}{{ICD10 category|Infectious disease}}{{ICD10 category|Infection requiring pathogen}}

== Additional Info ==
This code is very similar to [[Cellulitis]]. ICD10 has "wastebasket" categories for almost everything, and in general you should code the most specific code available, with the wastebaskets used for things that for one reason or another don't quite fit in the more specific codes. So if it's [[Cellulitis]], then use that specific code, but if it's a Skin/SQ soft tissue infection that for whatever reason isn't technically a cellulitis, then code you've got this wastebasket.
*When you have a patient with different skin infection sites with different bugs, code them all separately.  IF a patient has several skin infection sites, growing the same bug, code only once.

'''Includes'''

* Cutaneous candidiasis combine with [[Candida species]]

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== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
*[[Atopic dermatitis ‎ ]]
*[[Bullous skin disorder, NOS]]
*[[Cellulitis]]
*[[Contact dermatitis ‎ ]]
*[[Dermatitis, NOS ‎]]
*[[Disorder of skin due to radiation (radiation dermatitis)]]
*[[Impetigo]]
*[[Measles, limited to skin]]
*[[German measles, limited to skin]]
*[[Psoriasis of skin]]
*[[Skin, rash NOS]]
*[[Skin abscess]]
*[[Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome]]
*[[Skin rash, drug-induced (drug eruption)]]
*[[Dermatophytosis (tineas, cutaneous fungal infection)]]

== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==
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