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L51.3
Billable

Stevens-Johnson syndrome-toxic epidermal necrolysis overlap syndrome

Chapter 12: Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue

Inclusion Terms

1 item
  • SJS-TEN overlap syndrome

Billable Code

L51.3 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

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.

Excludes1

2 items

From L51:

  • staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (L00)
  • Ritter's disease (L00)

Excludes2

10 items

From L00-L99:

  • 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)
  • lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
  • systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
  • viral warts (B07.-)

Use Additional Code

14 items

From L51:

  • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)
  • code to identify associated manifestations, such as:
  • arthropathy associated with dermatological disorders (M14.8-)
  • conjunctival edema (H11.42)
  • conjunctivitis (H10.22-)
  • corneal scars and opacities (H17.-)
  • corneal ulcer (H16.0-)
  • edema of eyelid (H02.84-)
  • inflammation of eyelid (H01.8)
  • keratoconjunctivitis sicca (H16.22-)
  • mechanical lagophthalmos (H02.22-)
  • stomatitis (K12.-)
  • symblepharon (H11.23-)
  • code to identify percentage of skin exfoliation (L49.-)
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