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2012 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 478.19
Other disease of nasal cavity and sinuses
- Short description: Nasal & sinus dis NEC.
- ICD-9-CM 478.19 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
- You are viewing the 2012 version of ICD-9-CM 478.19.
- More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 478.19: 2013.
478.19 Alternative Terminology
- Abscess of nasal cavity
- Abscess of nasal septum
- Abscess of nose
- Acquired nasal septal defect
- Adhesions of nasal cavity
- Alternate nasal obstruction
- Anterior rhinorrhea
- 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
- 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
Applies To
- Abscess of nose (septum)
- Necrosis of nose (septum)
- Ulcer of nose (septum)
- Cyst or mucocele of sinus (nasal)
- Rhinolith
Convert 478.19 to ICD-10-CM 
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 478.19:
- 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
- brain 437.9
- 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
- nasal 478.19
- 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 (bone) 478.19
- nose (septum) 478.19
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive
- 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)
- 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
- Vestibulitis (ear) (see also Labyrinthitis) 386.30
- nose (external) 478.19
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