L90.5

Applicable To

• Adherent scar skin)

• Cicatrix

• Disfigurement of skin due to scar

• Fibrosis of skin NOS

• Scar NOS

Approximate Synonyms

• Contracture of scar of skin

• Contracture scar

• Disfigurement due to scar

• Fibrosis of injection site

• Fibrosis of skin

• Fibrosis of the skin

• Injection site fibrosis

• Joint contracture of finger due to scar

• Painful scar

• Scar causing joint contracture of finger

• Scar of hand

• Scar of skin

• Scar of skin, symptomatic

• Scar, hand

• Scarring disorder

• Symptomatic scar of skin

• Ugly scar

Clinical Information

• A mark left usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue.

• Lingering mark left on the skin after a surface injury, formed in the process of wound healing; also includes the new, internal tissue formed in the process of repair, as in a scarred kidney.

• The fibrous tissue that replaces normal tissue during the process of wound healing.

Details

• L90.5 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

• The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM L90.5 became effective on October 1, 2022.

• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of L90.5 – other international versions of ICD-10 L90.5 may differ.