Diagnosis Code: 478.19

Short Description: Nasal & sinus dis NEC

Long Description: Other disease of nasal cavity and sinuses

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the respiratory system (460–519)
  • Other diseases of upper respiratory tract (470-478)
    • 478 Other diseases of upper respiratory tract
      • 478.19 Nasal & sinus dis NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Abscess of nasal cavity
• Abscess of nasal septum
• Abscess of nose
• Acquired nasal septal defect
• Adhesions of nasal cavity
• Alternate nasal obstruction
• Anterior rhinorrhea
• Antrolith of maxillary sinus
• Atrophy of nasal turbinates
• Blocked sinuses
• Catarrhal nasal discharge
• Cellulitis and abscess of nose
• Choanal stenosis
• Classical histoplasmosis nasal ulceration
• Complaining of nasal congestion
• Concha bullosa
• Congestion of nasal sinus
• Cyst of maxillary sinus
• Cyst of nasal cavity
• Cyst of nasal sinus
• Discharge in inferior meatus
• Discharge in middle meatus
• Disorder of the nose
• Disorder of vomer
• Ear, nose and throat disorder
• Erythema over frontal sinus
• Frontal sinus pain
• Granulomatous nasal mucosa
• Hyperemic nasal mucosa
• Incompetence of nasal valve
• Infected mucous cyst of nasal sinus
• Lesion of nasal mucosa
• Lesion of nose
• Maxillary sinus pain
• Mouth breathing with nasal obstruction
• Nasal congestion
• Nasal discharge
• Nasal infection
• Nasal mucosa dry
• Nasal obstruction
• Nasal septal adhesions
• Nasal septal granuloma
• Nasal septal spur
• Nasal septum abnormality
• Nasal sinus mucocele
• Nasal sinus osteoma
• Nasal sinus problem
• Nasal turbinate absent
• Nasal vestibulitis
• Nasopharyngeal stenosis
• Necrosis of nasal septum
• Necrosis of nasal turbinates
• Necrosis of nose
• Necrotic rhinitis
• On examination - frontal sinus pain
• On examination - maxillary sinus pain
• On examination - nasal discharge - mucopurulent
• On examination - nasal septum perforated
• On examination - rhinorrhea
• Oronasal fistula
• Papilloma of nasal vestibule
• Perforation of nasal septum
• Posterior rhinorrhea
• Purulent nasal discharge
• Rhinolith
• Sarcoidosis of inferior turbinates
• Silent sinus syndrome
• Sore nostril
• Stenosis of nostrils
• Surgical ciliated cyst
• Swelling over maxillary sinus
• Swollen nasal mucosa
• Tenderness over frontal sinus
• Tenderness over maxillary sinus
• Transverse nasal groove
• Ulcer of nasal septum
• Ulcer of nose
• Ulcerated nasal mucosa

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 478.19 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Abscess (acute) (chronic) (infectional) (lymphangitic) (metastatic) (multiple) (pyogenic) (septic) (with lymphangitis) (see also Cellulitis) 682.9
  • nasal (fossa) (septum) 478.19
    • sinus (chronic) (see also Sinusitis) 473.9
  • nose (septum) 478.19
    • external 682.0
  • postnasal 478.19
  • septum (nasal) 478.19

• Adhesion(s), adhesive (postinfectional) (postoperative)
  • nasal (septum) (to turbinates) 478.19

• Calculus, calculi, calculous 592.9
  • nose 478.19

• Cellulitis (diffuse) (with lymphangitis) (see also Abscess) 682.9
  • nose 478.19
    • external 682.0

• Congestion, congestive
  • nasal 478.19
  • nose 478.19

• Cyst (mucus) (retention) (serous) (simple)
  • antrum 478.19
  • ethmoid sinus 478.19
  • frontal sinus 478.19
  • nasal sinus 478.19
  • nose 478.19
    • skin of 706.2
  • sinus (antral) (ethmoidal) (frontal) (maxillary) (nasal) (sphenoidal) 478.19
  • sphenoid sinus 478.19

• Degeneration, degenerative
  • nose 478.19

• Destruction
  • septum (nasal) 478.19

• Discharge
  • nasal 478.19

• Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • nasal 478.19
    • cavity NEC 478.19
    • sinus (chronic) - see Sinusitis
  • nose 478.19
  • sinus - see also Sinusitis
    • specified NEC 478.19

• Dry, dryness - see also condition
  • nose 478.19

• Fistula (sinus) 686.9
  • nasal 478.19
    • sinus (see also Sinusitis) 473.9
  • nose 478.19

• Hydrorrhea (nasal) 478.19
  • gravidarum 658.1
  • pregnancy 658.1

• Hyperactive, hyperactivity 314.01
  • nasal mucous membrane 478.19

• Hyperplasia, hyperplastic
  • nose (lymphoid) (polypoid) 478.19

• Hypertrophy, hypertrophic
  • mucous membrane
    • nose 478.19
  • nasal 478.19
    • alae 478.19
    • bone 738.0
    • cartilage 478.19
    • mucous membrane (septum) 478.19
    • sinus (see also Sinusitis) 473.9
    • turbinate 478.0
  • nose (see also Hypertrophy, nasal) 478.19

• Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) 136.9
  • nose 478.19
  • nostril 478.19

• Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation)
  • nose 478.19
    • suppurative 472.0

• Irritation
  • nose 478.19

• Lesion(s)
  • nose (internal) 478.19

• Mucocele
  • sinus (accessory) (nasal) 478.19
  • turbinate (bone) (middle) (nasal) 478.19

• Necrosis, necrotic
  • antrum, nasal sinus 478.19
  • bone (see also Osteomyelitis) 730.1
    • ethmoid 478.19
  • ethmoid (bone) 478.19
  • nose (septum) 478.19

• Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive
  • nasal 478.19
    • duct 375.56
      • neonatal 375.55
    • sinus - see Sinusitis
  • nose 478.19

• Occlusion
  • nose 478.19
    • congenital 748.0

• Pain(s) (see also Painful) 780.96
  • nasal 478.19
  • nose 478.19
  • sinus 478.19

• Perforation, perforative (nontraumatic)
  • nasal
    • septum 478.19
      • congenital 748.1
      • syphilitic 095.8

• Perichondritis
  • nose 478.19

• Redness
  • nose 478.19

• Rhinolith 478.19
  • nasal sinus (see also Sinusitis) 473.9

• Rhinomegaly 478.19

• Rhinorrhea 478.19
  • cerebrospinal (fluid) 349.81
  • paroxysmal (see also Fever, hay) 477.9
  • spasmodic (see also Fever, hay) 477.9

• Sneezing 784.99
  • intractable 478.19

• Spur - see also Exostosis
  • nose (septum) 478.19
    • bone 726.91
  • septal 478.19

• Stenosis (cicatricial) - see also Stricture
  • nares (anterior) (posterior) 478.19
    • congenital 748.0

• Stricture (see also Stenosis) 799.89
  • nares (anterior) (posterior) 478.19
    • congenital 748.0
  • nose 478.19
    • congenital 748.0
  • nostril (anterior) (posterior) 478.19
    • congenital 748.0

• Stuffy nose 478.19

• Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative 707.9
  • ala, nose 478.19
  • nose, nasal (infectional) (passage) 478.19
    • septum 478.19
      • varicose 456.8
    • skin - see Ulcer, skin
    • spirochetal NEC 104.8

• Vestibulitis (ear) (see also Labyrinthitis) 386.30
  • nose (external) 478.19

Crosswalk Information

The code 478.19 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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