2008 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Infectious And Parasitic Diseases 001-139 > Tuberculosis 010-018 >  2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 018
Miliary tuberculosis On October 1, 2008 the 2009 ICD-9-CM codes came into effect. Therefore, this code may be out of date.
The 2009 version of ICD-9-CM 018 can be accessed here. - An acute form of TUBERCULOSIS in which minute tubercles are formed in a number of organs of the body due to dissemination of the bacilli through the blood stream.
- 018 is a non-specific code that cannot be used to specify a diagnosis
018 includes: - tuberculosis:
- disseminated
- generalized
- miliary, whether of a single specified site, multiple sites, or unspecified site
- polyserositis
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