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Non-specific code 2007 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 012.0
Tuberculous pleurisy
  • There are 7 ICD-9-CM codes below 012.0 that define this diagnosis in greater detail. Do not use this code on a reimbursement claim.
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012.0 Excludes
  • pleurisy with effusion without mention of cause (511.9)
  • tuberculous pleurisy in primary progressive tuberculosis (010.1)
Applies To
  • Tuberculosis of pleura
  • Tuberculous empyema
  • Tuberculous hydrothorax
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 012.0:
  • Adhesion(s), adhesive (postinfectional) (postoperative)
    • pleura, pleuritic 511.0
      • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
  • Calcification
    • pleura 511.0
      • postinfectional 518.89
      • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
  • Effusion
    • pleura, pleurisy, pleuritic, pleuropericardial 511.9
  • Empyema (chest) (diaphragmatic) (double) (encapsulated) (general) (interlobar) (lung) (medial) (necessitatis) (perforating chest wall) (pleura) (pneumococcal) (residual) (sacculated) (streptococcal) (supradiaphragmatic) 510.9
    • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
  • Fistula (sinus) 686.9
    • pleura, pleural, pleurocutaneous, pleuroperitoneal 510.0
      • stomach 510.0
      • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis) 012.0
  • Hemothorax 511.8
    • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
  • Hydropneumothorax 511.8
    • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
  • Hydrothorax (double) (pleural) 511.8
    • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
  • Pleurisy (acute) (adhesive) (chronic) (costal) (diaphragmatic) (double) (dry) (fetid) (fibrinous) (fibrous) (interlobar) (latent) (lung) (old) (plastic) (primary) (residual) (sicca) (sterile) (subacute) (unresolved) (with adherent pleura) 511.0
    • with
      • effusion (without mention of cause) 511.9
        • bacterial, nontuberculous 511.1
        • nontuberculous NEC 511.9
        • pneumococcal 511.1
        • specified type NEC 511.8
        • staphylococcal 511.1
        • streptococcal 511.1
        • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
          • primary, progressive 010.1
      • influenza, flu, or grippe 487.1
      • tuberculosis - see Pleurisy, tuberculous
    • tuberculous (with effusion) (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
      • primary, progressive 010.1
  • Pyopneumothorax (infectional) 510.9
    • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
  • Pyothorax 510.9
    • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis, pleura) 012.0
  • Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous (calcification) (calcified) (caseous) (chromogenic acid-fast bacilli) (congenital) (degeneration) (disease) (fibrocaseous) (fistula) (gangrene) (interstitial) (isolated circumscribed lesions) (necrosis) (parenchymatous) (ulcerative) 011.9
    • bronchopleural 012.0
    • empyema 012.0
    • exudative 012.0
      • primary, progressive 010.1
    • hemothorax 012.0
    • hydropneumothorax 012.0
    • hydrothorax 012.0
    • pleura, pleural, pleurisy, pleuritis (fibrinous) (obliterative) (purulent) (simple plastic) (with effusion) 012.0
      • primary, progressive 010.1
    • pyopneumothorax 012.0
    • pyothorax 012.0
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