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Frequency. As outbreaks [ 1] Hand, foot, and mouth disease ( HFMD) is a common infection caused by a group of enteroviruses. [ 10] It typically begins with a fever and feeling generally unwell. [ 10] This is followed a day or two later by flat discolored spots or bumps that may blister, on the hands, feet and mouth and occasionally buttocks and ...
Pitted keratolysis (also known as keratolysis plantare sulcatum, [1] keratoma plantare sulcatum, [1] and ringed keratolysis [1]) is a bacterial skin infection of the foot. [2] The infection is characterized by craterlike pits on the sole of the feet and toes, particularly weight bearing areas. The infection is caused by Kytococcus sedentarius ...
Sever's disease, also known as calcaneus apophysitis, is an inflammation at the back of the heel (or calcaneus) growth plate in growing children. The condition is thought to be caused by repetitive stress at the heel. This condition is benign and common and usually resolves when the growth plate has closed or during periods of less activity.
Acute septic arthritis, infectious arthritis, suppurative arthritis, pyogenic arthritis, [ 4] osteomyelitis, or joint infection is the invasion of a joint by an infectious agent resulting in joint inflammation. Generally speaking, symptoms typically include redness, heat and pain in a single joint associated with a decreased ability to move the ...
Proponents of the view that de Quervain syndrome is a repetitive strain injury [14] consider postures where the thumb is held in abduction and extension to be predisposing factors. [10] Workers who perform rapid repetitive activities involving pinching, grasping, pulling or pushing have been considered at increased risk. [11]
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [ 1] Work on ICD-10 began in 1983, [ 2 ...
The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.
In ICD-10-CM, cleft lip is encoded by Q36.0-Q36.9; cleft palate by Q35.7-Q35.9; and cleft lip with cleft palate by Q37.8-Q37.9. Because ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM systems are very generic and do not adequately convey the complexity of the various forms of CL/P, modifications to these coding systems were developed for use in epidemiologic ...