Specific code 2007 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 709.8
Other specified disorders of skin
  • Short description: SKIN DISORDERS NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 709.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 709.8 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2007 version of ICD-9-CM 709.8.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 709.8: 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 709.8 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM L94.2 Calcinosis cutis
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM L98.8 Other specified disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Approximate Synonyms
  • Abnormal epidermopoiesis
  • Acquired cutaneous vascular malformation
  • Acquired lentiginosis
  • Animal-induced dermatosis
  • Apocrine cystadenoma
  • Application site necrosis
  • Arthropod dermatosis
  • Auspitz's sign
  • Benign lymphocytic infiltration of Jessner
  • Biers spots
  • Blister with infection
  • Blistering eruption
  • Blisters beneath skin
  • Blisters of multiple sites
  • Blue skin
  • Broken skin
  • Bullae AND sweat gland necrosis in drug-induced coma
  • Bullosis diabeticorum
  • Bullous weal
  • Caf�-au-lait macules with pulmonary stenosis
  • Chafing of skin
  • Chapped lips
  • Chapped skin
  • Chapped skin of lips
  • Chapping of lips
  • Chapping of skin due to wet work
  • Cheilosis
  • Closed comedone
  • Cold-induced dermatosis
  • Congenital fascial dystrophy
  • Conjunctivitis associated with autoimmune skin disorder
  • Contracture of skin of hand
  • Coumarin necrosis
  • Crohn's disease of skin
  • Crow's feet
  • Cutaneous and mucocutaneous bartonellosis
  • Cutaneous atrophy due to corticosteroids
  • Cutaneous involvement in listeriosis
  • Cutaneous pasteurellosis
  • Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa
  • Cutaneous rhinosporidiosis
  • Cutaneous strongyloidiasis
  • Cutis anserina
  • Decreased percutaneous penetration
  • Decreased stratum corneum water-binding capacity
  • Denuded skin
  • Dermatosis of suspected viral etiology
  • Dermatosis papulosa nigra
  • Dilated blood vessels in skin
  • Disorder of keratinization
  • Disorder of skin texture
  • Disorders of skin induced by physical agents
  • Displacement of nipple
  • Dyselastosis with cysts and comedones
  • Epithelial hyperplasia of skin
  • Facial volume loss
  • Fibrosis of subcutaneous tissue
  • Fissure in skin
  • Fissure of prepuce
  • Focal epithelial hyperplasia of skin
  • Foreign body dermatosis
  • Fracture blister
  • Friction dermatitis of children
  • Gottron papules
  • Gottron's papules
  • Granuloma
  • Granuloma annulare
  • Gustatory sweating
  • Halogen eruption
  • Herpetiform eruption
  • Idiopathic sclerosing lipogranuloma
  • Incontinentia pigmenti achromians syndrome
  • Incontinentia pigmenti syndrome
  • Increased keratinization
  • Increased percutaneous penetration
  • Increased stratum corneum water-binding capacity
  • Infective dermatosis of female genitalia
  • Infective dermatosis of lip
  • Infective dermatosis of male genitalia
  • Infective dermatosis of perianal skin
  • Intragranular vesicular dermatitis
  • Janeway lesion
  • Jessners lymphocytic infiltrate
  • Jessner's lymphocytic infiltrate
  • Lepromatous skin complications
  • Lesion of mucosa
  • Leukemic infiltration of skin
  • Leukemic infiltration of skin in acute myeloid leukemia
  • Leukemic infiltration of skin in chronic myeloid leukemia
  • Leukemic infiltration of skin in hairy-cell leukemia
  • Leukemic infiltration of skin in monocytic leukemia
  • Leukemic infiltration of skin in myeloid leukemia
  • Lichen planus of scalp
  • Lichen verrucosus et reticularis
  • Lipogranuloma
  • Localized lipodermatosclerosis
  • Macerated skin
  • Macular eruption
  • Macule
  • Maculopapular eruption
  • Malarial pigment deposition
  • Melanotic macule of oral mucosa
  • Menstrual cycle related dermatosis
  • Menstrual urticaria
  • Morbilliform eruption
  • Multiple pigmented terminal hair cysts
  • Musician's wart
  • Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma
  • Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma with paraproteinemia
  • Necrosis of subcutaneous tissue
  • Necrotic eschar
  • Necrotizing otitis externa
  • O/E - macules present
  • On examination - hemorrhagic bullae
  • On examination - macules
  • On examination - macules present
  • On examination - papules
  • On examination - papules present
  • On examination - Peeling skin
  • On examination - seropurulent bullae
  • On examination - serous bullae
  • On examination - skin bullae
  • On examination - skin bullae present
  • On examination - skin fissures
  • On examination - skin fissures present
  • On examination - skin sinus -after injury
  • On examination - suppuration skin sinus
  • On examination - vesicles
  • On examination - vesicles in skin
  • On examination - vesicles present
  • On examination - weals present
  • Painful piezogenic pedal papules
  • Painful pigmented pressure papules
  • Palmar pit
  • Papular eruption
  • Papular eruption of chin
  • Papule
  • Papule of skin
  • Papulonodular disease of skin
  • Penile sclerosing lipogranuloma
  • Penile sclerosing lipogranuloma due to injected substance
  • Perifolliculitis capitis abscedens
  • Periumbilical choristia
  • Plaque in skin or mucosa
  • Plaster of Paris injury to skin
  • Polypoid cutaneous rhinosporidiosis
  • Poppers' nodules due to intravenous drug abuse
  • Primary cutaneous vasculitis
  • Primary milia
  • Primary sclerosing lipogranuloma
  • Pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia
  • Pseudoscleroderma due to rheumatoid disease
  • Pseudostigmata
  • Puffiness of skin
  • Purpuric rash
  • Radionecrosis of skin
  • Recurrent focal palmar peeling
  • Recurrent herpes simplex vesicular dermatitis
  • Recurrent vesicular dermatitis due to herpes simplex
  • Religious stigmata
  • Sacral dimple
  • Sacral dimples
  • Sclerosing lipogranuloma
  • Scurfiness of skin
  • Sea bather's eruption
  • Secondary sclerosing lipogranuloma
  • Skin contracture of hand
  • Skin mark
  • Skin necrosis
  • Skin peeling disorder
  • Skin reaction irritant
  • Skin sinus
  • Skin tissue necrosis
  • Skin vegetations
  • Slap mark
  • Sore on skin
  • Suntan
  • Thin skin
  • Toboggan dermatitis
  • Toxicoderma
  • Ulcer of skin caused by ischemia due to hypertensive disease
  • Ultraviolet-induced change in normal skin
  • Vellus hair cyst
  • Venous lake
  • Venous lake of skin
  • Vesicular eruption
  • Vesicular eruption of skin
  • Vesicular skin eruptions of the temporal region
  • Vinyl chloride disease
  • Viral papular dermatitis
  • Volume loss face
  • Volume loss of face
  • Vulval intraepithelial neoplasia with squamous epithelial hyperplasia
  • Weal
  • Wound edge necrosis
  • Wound sinus
Applies To
  • Epithelial hyperplasia
  • Menstrual dermatosis
  • Vesicular eruption
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 709.8:
  • Bleb(s) 709.8
    • emphysematous (bullous) (diffuse) (lung) (ruptured) (solitary) 492.0
    • filtering, eye (postglaucoma) (status) V45.69
      • with complication 997.99
      • postcataract extraction (complication) 997.99
    • subpleural (emphysematous) 492.0
  • Blister - see also Injury, superficial, by site
    • multiple, skin, nontraumatic 709.8
  • Bulla(e) 709.8
    • lung (emphysematous) (solitary) 492.0
  • Chafing 709.8
  • Chapping skin 709.8
  • Cyst (mucus) (retention) (serous) (simple)
    • dermoid (M9084/0) - see also Neoplasm, by site, benign
      • with malignant transformation (M9084/3) 183.0
      • implantation
        • external area or site (skin) NEC 709.8
        • iris 364.61
        • skin 709.8
        • vagina 623.8
        • vulva 624.8
      • mouth 528.4
      • oral soft tissue 528.4
      • sacrococcygeal 685.1
    • implantation (dermoid)
  • Deformity 738.9
    • skin (congenital) 757.9
      • acquired NEC 709.8
  • Dermatitis (allergic) (contact) (occupational) (venenata) 692.9
    • friction 709.8
    • traumatic NEC 709.8
  • Dermatosis 709.9
    • menstrual NEC 709.8
    • papulosa nigra 709.8
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • skin NEC 709.9
      • due to metabolic disorder 277.9
      • specified type NEC 709.8
  • Disorder - see also Disease
    • skin NEC 709.9
      • fetus or newborn 778.9
      • psychogenic (allergic) (eczematous) (pruritic) 306.3
      • specified type NEC 709.8
      • vascular 709.1
  • Eruption
    • skin (see also Dermatitis) 782.1
      • creeping (meaning hookworm) 126.9
      • due to
        • chemical(s) NEC 692.4
        • drug - see Dermatitis, due to, drug
        • prophylactic inoculation or vaccination against disease - see Dermatitis, due to, vaccine
        • smallpox vaccination NEC - see Dermatitis, due to, vaccine
      • erysipeloid 027.1
      • feigned 698.4
      • hutchinson, summer 692.72
      • kaposi's, varicelliform 054.0
      • lichenoid, axilla 698.3
      • polymorphous, due to light 692.72
      • toxic NEC 695.0
      • vesicular 709.8
    • vesicular 709.8
  • Fissure, fissured
    • skin 709.8
  • Hyperplasia, hyperplastic
  • Implantation
    • dermoid (cyst)
  • Infiltrate, infiltration
    • skin, lymphocytic (benign) 709.8
  • Lipogranuloma, sclerosing 709.8
  • Macules and papules 709.8
  • Necrosis, necrotic
    • skin or subcutaneous tissue 709.8
      • due to burn-see Burn, by site
      • gangrenous 785.4
  • Papule 709.8
    • fibrous, of nose (M8724/0) 216.3
  • Pimple 709.8
  • Vesicle
    • cutaneous 709.8
    • skin 709.8
  • Wheal 709.8
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