Cleft lip or cleft palate
| ICD10 Diagnosis | |
| Dx: | Cleft lip or cleft palate |
| ICD10 code: | Q37 |
| Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | none assigned |
| Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
| APACHE Como Component: | none |
| APACHE Acute Component: | none |
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| External ICD10 Documentation | |
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Additional Info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_cleft_palate
When a patient presents solely for management of a specific manifestation of a congenital anomaly syndrome, assign a code for the manifestation as the main problem. • Assign an additional code to describe the syndrome.
Example:
A young male patient with Goldenhar syndrome and cleft palate is admitted for a revision of the cleft palate repair. Cleft palate, unspecified Congenital malformation syndromes predominantly affecting facial appearance there is a specific code to identify the Goldenhar syndrome. the cleft palate is the condition described as the reason for the patient’s stay in hospital
- Syndromes/The Van der Woude Syndrome/ Siderius X-linked mental retardation/Stickler's Syndrome/Loeys-Dietz syndrome/Hardikar syndrome/Cleft lip/palate may be present in many different chromosome disorders including Patau Syndrome (trisomy 13)/Malpuech facial clefting syndrome/
Hearing loss with craniofacial syndromes/Popliteal pterygium syndrome/Treacher Collins Syndrome/
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