Specific code 2009 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 259.8
Other specified endocrine disorders
  • Short description: ENDOCRINE DISORDERS NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 259.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 259.8 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 2009 version of ICD-9-CM 259.8.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 259.8: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 259.8 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM E34.8 Other specified endocrine disorders
Approximate Synonyms
  • Abnormal 17-ketosteroids
  • Abnormal 3,3' diiodothyronine
  • Abnormal corticotropin releasing factor
  • Abnormal oxytocin
  • Abnormal pituitary follicle stimulating hormone
  • Abnormal pituitary gonadotropin
  • Abnormal polypeptide hormone
  • Abnormal protein hormone
  • Abnormal steroid hormone
  • Abnormal testosterone
  • Acrogeria
  • Androgen resistance syndrome
  • Combination of endocrine dysfunction
  • Complex gonadal endocrine disorder
  • Complex pituitary endocrine disorder
  • Cyst of pineal gland
  • Decreased hormonal activity
  • Disorder of endocrine receptor
  • Endocrine andrology disorder
  • Endocrine axis dysfunction
  • Endocrine disorder related to puberty
  • Extreme insulin resistance with acanthosis nigricans, hirsutism AND autoantibodies to the insulin receptors
  • Functional disease of the CNS with neuroendocrine disturbance
  • Gynecological endocrinology disorder
  • Hormonal resistance
  • Hormone absence
  • Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome
  • Hyperthermia-hyperphagia-hypothyroidism syndrome
  • Hypothalamic obesity
  • Hypothalamic pseudopuberty
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis dysfunction
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis dysfunction
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis dysfunction
  • Increased hormonal requirement
  • Insulin receptor defect
  • Leprechaunism syndrome
  • Metageria
  • Mullerian inhibiting factor deficiency
  • Neonatal pseudo-hydrocephalic progeroid syndrome
  • Non-pancreatic hypersecretion of intestinal hormones
  • Pineal gland disorder
  • Pineal gland dysfunction
  • Pineal hyperplasia AND diabetes mellitus syndrome
  • Placental aromatase deficiency
  • Premature aging syndrome
  • Progeria syndrome
  • Pseudohypoaldosteronism, type 1, recessive form
  • Pseudopuberty
  • Refetoff syndrome
  • Werner syndrome
  • Wrinkly skin syndrome
Applies To
  • Pineal gland dysfunction
  • Progeria
  • Werner's syndrome
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 259.8:
  • Abscess (acute) (chronic) (infectional) (lymphangitic) (metastatic) (multiple) (pyogenic) (septic) (with lymphangitis) (see also Cellulitis) 682.9
    • ductless gland 259.8
  • Calcification
    • pineal gland 259.8
  • Cyst (mucus) (retention) (serous) (simple)
    • epiphysis cerebri 259.8
  • Degeneration, degenerative
    • pineal gland 259.8
  • Diabetes, diabetic (brittle) (congenital) (familial) (mellitus) (poorly controlled) (severe) (slight) (without complication) 250.0
    • glycogenosis, secondary 250.8 [259.8]
      • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [259.8]
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • carotid gland 259.8
    • endocrine glands or system NEC 259.9
      • specified NEC 259.8
    • Gilford (-Hutchinson) (progeria) 259.8
    • Hutchinson-Gilford (progeria) 259.8
    • pineal gland 259.8
    • Werner's (progeria adultorum) 259.8
  • Disorder - see also Disease
    • endocrine 259.9
      • specified type NEC 259.8
  • Donohue's syndrome (leprechaunism) 259.8
  • Dysfunction
    • pineal gland 259.8
  • Gilford (-Hutchinson) disease or syndrome (progeria) 259.8
  • Glycogenosis (see also Disease, glycogen storage) 271.0
    • diabetic, secondary 250.8 [259.8]
      • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [259.8]
  • Hutchinson-Gilford disease or syndrome (progeria) 259.8
  • Hyperpinealism 259.8
  • Hypopinealism 259.8
  • Leprechaunism 259.8
  • Pellizzi's syndrome (pineal) 259.8
  • Perversion, perverted
    • function
      • pineal gland 259.8
      • pituitary gland 253.9
      • placenta - see Placenta, abnormal
  • Premature - see also condition
    • senility (syndrome) 259.8
  • Presenile - see also condition
    • aging 259.8
  • Presenility 259.8
  • Progeria (adultorum) (syndrome) 259.8
  • Puberty V21.1
    • precocious (constitutional) (cryptogenic) (idiopathic) NEC 259.1
      • due to
        • adrenal
        • cortical hyperfunction 255.2
        • ovarian hyperfunction 256.1
        • pineal tumor 259.8
        • testicular hyperfunction 257.0
    • premature 259.1
      • due to
        • adrenal cortical hyperfunction 255.2
        • pineal tumor 259.8
        • pituitary (anterior) hyperfunction 253.1
  • Senile (see also condition) 797
    • syndrome 259.8
  • Senility 797
    • premature (syndrome) 259.8
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Donohue's (leprechaunism) 259.8
    • Gilford (-Hutchinson) (progeria) 259.8
    • Hutchinson-Gilford (progeria) 259.8
    • macrogenitosomia praecox 259.8
    • Pellizzi's (pineal) 259.8
    • pineal 259.8
    • premature senility 259.8
    • progeria 259.8
    • senilism 259.8
    • trigeminal plate 259.8
    • Werner's (progeria adultorum) 259.8
  • Werner's disease or syndrome (progeria adultorum) 259.8
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