L40.0 Psoriasis vulgaris

Instructional Notes:

L40.0
Description: Psoriasis vulgaris
Inclusion Term:
- Nummular psoriasis
- Plaque psoriasis
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L40
Description: Psoriasis
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L40-L45
Description: Papulosquamous disorders (L40-L45)
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L00-L99
Description: Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Exclude2:
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
- viral warts (B07.-)