Cutaneous nocardiosis

Description

Cutaneous nocardiosis may be due to direct infection of the skin where it presents either as a solitary cold abscess or as a lymphangitic process in which infection spreads up lymphatic channels to form a linear array of suppurative nodules. Skin involvement is also present in a third of cases of systemic nocardiosis.

Excludes

• 1C43 – Actinomycetoma due to Nocardia species

Exclusions from above levels

• NE83.1 – Infection arising from device, implant or graft, not elsewhere classified