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A18.2
Billable

Tuberculous peripheral lymphadenopathy

Chapter 1: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

Inclusion Terms

1 item
  • Tuberculous adenitis

Excludes2

3 items
  • tuberculosis of bronchial and mediastinal lymph nodes (A15.4)
  • tuberculosis of mesenteric and retroperitoneal lymph nodes (A18.39)
  • tuberculous tracheobronchial adenopathy (A15.4)

Billable Code

A18.2 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

View documentation for cervical lymphadenitis
cervical lymphadenitis
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Cervical Lymphadenitis

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Includes

1 item

From A00-B99:

  • diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible

Excludes1

1 item

From A00-B99:

  • certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters

Excludes2

4 items

From A00-B99:

  • carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
  • infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)
  • infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)
  • influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)

Use Additional Code

1 item

From A00-B99:

  • code to identify resistance to antimicrobial drugs (Z16.-)
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