Block in Chapter 8
H65–H75
Diseases of middle ear and mastoid
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Also from chapter/block level (8 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 8 Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
- 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)
Notes
Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
Inherited from Chapter 8 Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
- Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition
Categories in this block 11
- H65Nonsuppurative otitis media
- H66Suppurative and unspecified otitis media
- H67Otitis media in diseases classified elsewhere
- H68Eustachian salpingitis and obstruction
- H69Other and unspecified disorders of Eustachian tube
- H70Mastoiditis and related conditions
- H71Cholesteatoma of middle ear
- H72Perforation of tympanic membrane
- H73Other disorders of tympanic membrane
- H74Other disorders of middle ear mastoid
- H75Other disorders of middle ear and mastoid in diseases classified elsewhere