Maple bark strippers' lung

ICD-10 Code J67.6

Maple bark strippers' lung

Definition

A hypersensitivity pneumonitis associated with the inhalation of fungal spores of Cryptostroma corticale in workers stripping the bark from maple and sycamore logs affected by sooty bark disease.

Also known as alveolitis due to cryptostroma corticale, maple bark-strippers' lung — per MONDO

Also identified as