Diseases of the ear and mastoid process - H60-H95
Diseases of the Ear and Mastoid Process - It covers ear and mastoid-related conditions, such as otitis media and hearing loss.
Chapter notes often provide a brief overview or description of the conditions and diseases covered within that specific chapter. This helps users understand the scope and content of the chapter.
Chapter Notes:
- Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition
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:
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
These ranges represents sections of Diseases of the ear and mastoid process. The "H" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad chapter.