Malignant melanoma of skin - C43

Excludes1: It indicates that the conditions described by two codes cannot occur together in the same patient. These codes are mutually exclusive.

Type 1 Excludes:

melanoma in situ (D03.-)

Excludes2: This note means that the conditions described by two codes are not usually associated with each other but can sometimes occur together.

Type 2 Excludes:

malignant melanoma of skin of genital organs (C51-C52, C60.-, C63.-)
Merkel cell carcinoma (C4A.-)
sites other than skin-code to malignant neoplasm of the site

These ranges represents subcategories of Malignant melanoma of skin. The "C43" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad category.

Codes:

C43.0 - Malignant melanoma of lip
C43.1 - Malignant melanoma of eyelid, including canthus
C43.10 - Malignant melanoma of unspecified eyelid, including canthus
C43.11 - Malignant melanoma of right eyelid, including canthus
C43.111 - Malignant melanoma of right upper eyelid, including canthus
C43.112 - Malignant melanoma of right lower eyelid, including canthus
C43.12 - Malignant melanoma of left eyelid, including canthus
C43.121 - Malignant melanoma of left upper eyelid, including canthus
C43.122 - Malignant melanoma of left lower eyelid, including canthus
C43.2 - Malignant melanoma of ear and external auricular canal
C43.20 - Malignant melanoma of unspecified ear and external auricular canal
C43.21 - Malignant melanoma of right ear and external auricular canal
C43.22 - Malignant melanoma of left ear and external auricular canal
C43.3 - Malignant melanoma of other and unspecified parts of face
C43.30 - Malignant melanoma of unspecified part of face
C43.31 - Malignant melanoma of nose
C43.39 - Malignant melanoma of other parts of face
C43.4 - Malignant melanoma of scalp and neck
C43.5 - Malignant melanoma of trunk
C43.51 - Malignant melanoma of anal skin
C43.52 - Malignant melanoma of skin of breast
C43.59 - Malignant melanoma of other part of trunk
C43.6 - Malignant melanoma of upper limb, including shoulder
C43.60 - Malignant melanoma of unspecified upper limb, including shoulder
C43.61 - Malignant melanoma of right upper limb, including shoulder
C43.62 - Malignant melanoma of left upper limb, including shoulder
C43.7 - Malignant melanoma of lower limb, including hip
C43.70 - Malignant melanoma of unspecified lower limb, including hip
C43.71 - Malignant melanoma of right lower limb, including hip
C43.72 - Malignant melanoma of left lower limb, including hip
C43.8 - Malignant melanoma of overlapping sites of skin
C43.9 - Malignant melanoma of skin, unspecified