Skin abscess
ICD10 Diagnosis | |
Dx: | Skin abscess |
ICD10 code: | L02 |
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | Soft Tissue Abscess |
Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
APACHE Como Component: | none |
APACHE Acute Component: | none |
External ICD10 Documentation |
Additional Info
incl furuncle, carbuncle, boil; incl skin or subcutaneous
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
- Infection of skin or subcutaneous (soft) tissue, NOS
- Intracranial abscess
- Intraspinal abscess
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Retropharyngeal or parapharyngeal abscess
- Mouth, cellulitis or abscess
- Kidney, renal abscess or perinephric abscess
- Abscess of intestine
- Anus or rectum, abscess
- Lung abscess
- Liver abscess
- Prostate, abscess
Candidate Combined ICD10 codes
Infections
Infections in ICD10 have combined coding requirements for some of their pathogens. Any that have antibiotic resistances would store those as Combined ICD10 codes as well. If the infection is acquired in the hospital, see Nosocomial infection, NOS. See Lab and culture reports for confirmation and details about tests. See Infections in ICD10 for more general info.
Potential Infection
This diagnosis is about a potential infection; this means it could be an infectious disease or not. This means we can not do any cross checks about it. Please remember to code the pathogen and any possible antibiotic resistance.=== Infection requiring pathogen === This diagnosis is an infection that requires a pathogen to be coded.
Attribution of infections
Related CCI Codes
Data Integrity Checks (SMW)
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Check Inf Pathogens must have Infection requiring pathogen or Potential Infection | CCMDB.accdb | implemented |
Query check ICD10 Inf Infection req Pathogen must have one | CCMDB.accdb | implemented |
Query check ICD10 Inf Potential Infection must have pathogen or alt | CCMDB.accdb | implemented |
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