786.7 ABNORMAL CHEST SOUNDS


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 786.7

Short Description: Abnormal chest sounds

Long Description: Abnormal chest sounds

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions (780–799)
    • Symptoms (780-789)
      • 786 Symptoms involving respiratory system and other chest symptoms
        • 786.7 Abnormal chest sounds

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


Synonyms

  • Amphoric breathing
  • Atelectatic rales
  • Audible inspiration
  • Bronchovesicular breath sounds
  • Bubbling crackles
  • Bubbling respiration
  • Chest percussion note ringing
  • Chest resonance to percussion reduced
  • Chest tympanitic to percussion
  • Coarse respiratory crackles
  • Coin sign
  • Diaphragmatic dullness to percussion displaced upwards
  • Dullness to percussion over Traube's space
  • Expiratory crackles
  • Finding of diaphragmatic dullness to percussion
  • Finding related to respiratory sounds
  • Fine respiratory crackles
  • Groaning respiration
  • Hepatic dullness to percussion displaced
  • Hepatic dullness to percussion displaced downwards
  • Hepatic dullness to percussion displaced upwards
  • Hyperresonance
  • Impaired resonance
  • Increased breath sounds
  • Inspiratory crackles
  • Laryngeal crepitus
  • Mediastinal crunch
  • Medium rales
  • Moist crackles
  • On examination - bronchophony
  • On examination - cavernous breathing
  • On examination - coarse crepitations
  • On examination - egophony
  • On examination - fine crepitations
  • On examination - pectoriloquy
  • On examination - pleural friction rub
  • Percussion of chest abnormal
  • Pleural friction rub
  • Pleuropericardial friction rub
  • Post-tussive crackles
  • Respiratory clicking sound
  • Respiratory crackles
  • Respiratory squawk
  • Rhonchal fremitus
  • Sighing respiration
  • Succussion splash in chest
  • Superficial crackling rales
  • Transmitted sounds
  • Whistling respiration

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 786.7 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities - see also Anomaly
    • chest sounds 786.7
    • percussion, chest 786.7
  • Friction
    • sounds, chest 786.7
  • Rales 786.7
  • Respiration
    • sighing 786.7
      • psychogenic 306.1
  • Sighing respiration 786.7
  • Sounds
    • friction, pleural 786.7
    • succussion, chest 786.7
  • Succussion sounds, chest 786.7
  • Tympany
    • chest 786.7

Crosswalk Information

The code 786.7 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
786.7 Right Arrow R09.89 Oth symptoms and signs involving the circ and resp systems
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
786.00 Respiratory abnormality, unspecified
786.01 Hyperventilation
786.02 Orthopnea
786.03 Apnea
786.04 Cheyne-Stokes respiration
786.05 Shortness of breath
786.06 Tachypnea
786.07 Wheezing
786.09 Other respiratory abnormalities
786.1 Stridor
786.2 Cough
786.30 Hemoptysis, unspecified
786.31 Acute idiopathic pulmonary hemorrhage in infants [AIPHI]
786.39 Other hemoptysis
786.4 Abnormal sputum
786.50 Chest pain, unspecified
786.51 Precordial pain
786.52 Painful respiration
786.59 Other chest pain
786.6 Swelling, mass, or lump in chest
786.8 Hiccough
786.9 Other symptoms involving respiratory system and chest


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