L90.5
Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 12 never code together
L00-L99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8)I89.8
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)M30-M36
- viral warts (B07.-)B07.-
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 5
L90.5code
Inclusion terms
- Adherent scar (skin)
- Cicatrix
- Disfigurement of skin due to scar
- Fibrosis of skin NOS
- Scar NOS
Index entries leading here 7
Alongside this code 8 same parent — L90
L90.0 Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus L90.1 Anetoderma of Schweninger-Buzzi L90.2 Anetoderma of Jadassohn-Pellizzari L90.3 Atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini L90.4 Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans L90.6 Striae atrophicae L90.8 Other atrophic disorders of skin L90.9 Atrophic disorder of skin, unspecified
Medications 2
2973 Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms drugs 1331 Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
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