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253.3 PITUITARY DWARFISM


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 253.3

Short Description: Pituitary dwarfism

Long Description: Pituitary dwarfism

Code Classification:

  • Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders (240–279)
    • Diseases of other endocrine glands (249-259)
      • 253 Disorders of the pituitary gland and its hypothalamic control
        • 253.3 Pituitary dwarfism

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 253.3 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Ateleiosis, ateliosis 253.3
  • Ateliosis 253.3
  • Burnier's syndrome (hypophyseal dwarfism) 253.3
  • Cretin, cretinism (athyrotic) (congenital) (endemic) (metabolic) (nongoitrous) (sporadic) 243
    • pituitary 253.3
  • Deficiency, deficient
    • growth hormone 253.3
    • HGH (human growth hormone) 253.3
    • hormone - see also Deficiency, by specific hormone
      • anterior pituitary (isolated) (partial) NEC 253.4
        • growth (human) 253.3
      • growth (human) (isolated) 253.3
      • human growth 253.3
    • human growth hormone 253.3
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • Lorain's (pituitary dwarfism) 253.3
  • Dwarf, dwarfism 259.4
    • with infantilism (hypophyseal) 253.3
    • hypophyseal 253.3
    • Levi type 253.3
    • Lorain-Levi (pituitary) 253.3
    • Lorain type (pituitary) 253.3
    • pituitary 253.3
    • primordial 253.3
  • Hypophyseal, hypophysis - see also condition
    • dwarfism 253.3
  • Hyposomatotropism 253.3
  • Infantilism 259.9
    • with dwarfism (hypophyseal) 253.3
    • hypophyseal 253.3
    • pituitary 253.3
  • Infertility
    • female 628.9
      • origin
        • pituitary-hypothalamus NEC 253.8 [628.1]
          • dwarfism 253.3 [628.1]
  • Levi's syndrome (pituitary dwarfism) 253.3
  • Lorain's disease or syndrome (pituitary dwarfism) 253.3
  • Lorain-Levi syndrome (pituitary dwarfism) 253.3
  • Nanism, nanosomia (see also Dwarfism) 259.4
    • hypophyseal 253.3
    • pituitary 253.3
  • Neb�court's syndrome 253.3
  • Panhypopituitarism 253.2
    • prepubertal 253.3
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Burnier's (hypophyseal dwarfism) 253.3
    • infantilism 253.3
    • Levi's (pituitary dwarfism) 253.3
    • Lorain-Levi (pituitary dwarfism) 253.3
    • Neb�court's 253.3

Crosswalk Information

The code 253.3 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
253.3 Right Arrow E23.0 Hypopituitarism
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
253.0 Acromegaly and gigantism
253.1 Other and unspecified anterior pituitary hyperfunction
253.2 Panhypopituitarism
253.4 Other anterior pituitary disorders
253.5 Diabetes insipidus
253.6 Other disorders of neurohypophysis
253.7 Iatrogenic pituitary disorders
253.8 Other disorders of the pituitary and other syndromes of diencephalohypophyseal origin
253.9 Unspecified disorder of the pituitary gland and its hypothalamic control

This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014

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