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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 pilonidal sinus and death from pilonidal sinus.
Meaning of pilonidal sinus
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, pilonidal sinus:
(a)          means an inflammatory tissue reaction of the skin to an embedded hair which is manifested by the development of a sinus or fistula; and
(b)           includes pilonidal cyst and pilonidal fistula; and
(c)           excludes ingrown hair.
Note:  Pilonidal sinus principally occurs in the sacrococcygeal region, but can also occur in the interdigital webs of the hands and in other regions of the body.
(3)          While pilonidal sinus attracts ICD‑10‑AM code L05, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of pilonidal sinus 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 pilonidal sinus
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, pilonidal sinus, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's pilonidal sinus.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.