Neonatal acne

Description

Acne presenting at birth or shortly afterwards, generally with predominantly comedonal lesions of the cheeks and a paucity of inflammatory lesions. It is thought to be due to hyperactivity of the sebaceous glands stimulated by neonatal androgens from the testes in boys and adrenals in girls.

Coding note from above levels

Conditions arising in the perinatal period, even though death or morbidity occurs later, should, as far as possible, be coded to chapter 19, which takes precedence over chapters containing codes for diseases by their anatomical site. For children less than 28 days old, assume that a reported condition developed in the perinatal period, unless the duration is stated and the onset was after the first completed week of life.

Index terms

Neonatal acne

Exclusions from above levels

01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases - acquired after birth
02 – Neoplasms
05 – Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases

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08 – Certain congenital diseases of the nervous system
20 – Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
22 – Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes
3A10 – Hereditary haemolytic anaemia
4A01.03 – Transient hypogammaglobulinaemia of infancy
9B71.3 – Retinopathy of prematurity
BC43 – congenital cardiomyopathy
DA93.0 – Paralytic ileus
EA50.Z – Pemphigus neonatorum
EH40.00 – Cradle cap
http://id.who.int/icd/entity/588616678 – Gastroenteritis or colitis of infectious origin
http://id.who.int/icd/entity/609214049 – Congenital gonococcal infection

Sibling codes

KC21.1 – Neonatal toxic erythema
KC21.2 – Perianal dermatitis of the newborn
KC21.Y – Other specified inflammatory dermatoses of the newborn
KC21.Z – Inflammatory dermatoses of the newborn, unspecified

Foundation entity

Neonatal acne – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1302834639

Part of: KC21: Inflammatory dermatoses of the newborn › 19: Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period