Skin tags or polyps

Definition

Benign outgrowths of skin consisting of a fibrovascular core covered with normal or thinned epidermis. They may be single or multiple and range in diameter from less than a millimetre to a centimetre or more.

3 subordinate codes

• EK71.0Fibroepithelial polyp of skin
• EK71.1Multiple skin tags
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified

Nearby in Benign proliferations, neoplasms and cysts of the skin

• EK70Cutaneous cysts
• Benign adipocytic neoplasms of skin or soft tissue