Catalog

Disseminate or recurrent infundibulofolliculitis

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Disseminate or recurrent infundibulofolliculitis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/492305783

A dermatosis of poorly understood aetiology affecting principally the chest, shoulders and upper arms of young black men and characterised by a disseminated low-grade spongiotic dermatitis involving the infundibula of multiple adjacent follicles. It manifests clinically as sheets of small monomorphic pruritic papules.