Radiodermatitis

Classification according to ICD-10
L58	Radiodermatitis
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The radio dermatitis (or radiation dermatitis ) is a skin disease that can be attributed to the fact that a person over a long period of ionizing radiation was suspended. The disease occurs most frequently in people who work very intensively with medical imaging devices that use ionizing radiation (for example angiography ) or in patients who are undergoing radiation therapy. By X-ray dermatitis caused was described a few years after the discovery of X-rays. Due to the low safety precautions at the time and a lack of knowledge about the harmful effects of radiation, the disease occurred more frequently at the time.

Radiodermatitis can be divided into the following degrees:

• Grade 1: Acute sicca radiodermatitis (dry scales)
• Grade 2: Radiodermatitis acuta bullosa (fluid-filled bladders)
• Grade 3: acuta erosive radiodermatitis (loss of epidermal covering)
• Grade 4: acuta gangrenous radiodermatitis (skin dies)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Wiesner: A contribution to the knowledge of X-ray dermatitis. In: Münchner medical Wochenschrift. Volume 49, 1902, pp. 1047-1049.
2. ↑ Rolf Sauer . Radiation therapy and oncology. ISBN 978-3-437-47501-6

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