Acute tonsillitis - J03
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:
- acute sore throat (J02.-)
- hypertrophy of tonsils (J35.1)
- peritonsillar abscess (J36)
- sore throat NOS (J02.9)
- streptococcal sore throat (J02.0)
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:
- chronic tonsillitis (J35.0)
These ranges represents subcategories of Acute tonsillitis. The "J03" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad category.
Codes:
- J03.0 - Streptococcal tonsillitis
- J03.00 - Acute streptococcal tonsillitis, unspecified
- J03.01 - Acute recurrent streptococcal tonsillitis
- J03.8 - Acute tonsillitis due to other specified organisms
- J03.80 - Acute tonsillitis due to other specified organisms
- J03.81 - Acute recurrent tonsillitis due to other specified organisms
- J03.9 - Acute tonsillitis, unspecified
- J03.90 - Acute tonsillitis, unspecified
- J03.91 - Acute recurrent tonsillitis, unspecified