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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about seborrhoeic keratosis and death from seborrhoeic keratosis.
Meaning of seborrhoeic keratosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, seborrhoeic keratosis:
(a)          means a benign intra-epidermal skin tumour arising from the  proliferation of basaloid keratinocytes with histopathological architecture of a papilloma with a flat base and a hyperkeratotic crown; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            basal cell papilloma;
(ii)         dermatosis papulosa nigra;
(iii)       pigmented seborrhoeic keratosis;
(iv)        seborrhoeic wart;
(v)          stucco keratosis; and
(vi)         Leser-Trélat sign/disease; and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            seborrhoeic dermatitis;
(ii)         seborrhoeic psoriasis; and
(iii)       solar keratosis.
(3)          While seborrhoeic keratosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code L82, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of seborrhoeic keratosis is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from seborrhoeic keratosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, seborrhoeic keratosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's seborrhoeic keratosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.