Acquired changes in hair colour

Definition

Abnormal diffuse or circumscribed alterations in natural hair colour. Causes include drugs, idiopathic premature greying of the hair, differential shedding of pigmented hair in alopecia areata or hair pigment loss in association with vitiligo or regressing melanocytic naevi.

3 subordinate codes

• ED73.10Premature canities
• ED73.11Acquired poliosis
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified

Nearby in Acquired disorders of the hair shaft

• ED73.0Weathered hair
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified