Pressure urticaria

Pressure urticaria
Classification and external resources
Specialty	dermatology
ICD-10	L50.4 (ILDS L50.410)

Pressure urticaria (also known as delayed pressure urticaria) is a physical urticaria caused by pressure applied to the skin, and is characterized by the development of swelling and pain that usually occurs 3 to 12 hours after local pressure has been applied.^[1]^:155^[2]

References

↑ James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology. (10th ed.). Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0.
↑ Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph L. (2007). Dermatology: 2-Volume Set. St. Louis: Mosby. pp. 266–7. ISBN 1-4160-2999-0.

Urticaria and erythema (L50–L54, 695, 708)

Urticaria
(acute/chronic)

Allergic urticaria

Urticarial allergic eruption

Physical urticaria

Cold urticaria Familial Primary cold contact urticaria Secondary cold contact urticaria Reflex cold urticaria

Heat urticaria Localized heat contact urticaria Solar urticaria

Dermatographic urticaria Vibratory angioedema Pressure urticaria Cholinergic urticaria Aquagenic urticaria

Other urticaria

Angioedema

Erythema

Erythema multiforme/ drug eruption	Erythema multiforme minor Erythema multiforme major (Stevens–Johnson syndrome, Toxic epidermal necrolysis) panniculitis (Erythema nodosum) Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis

Figurate erythema	Erythema annulare centrifugum Erythema marginatum Erythema migrans Erythema gyratum repens

Other erythema	Necrolytic migratory erythema Erythema toxicum Erythroderma Palmar erythema Generalized erythema

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Pressure urticaria

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References