Diagnosis Code: 254.8

Short Description: Diseases of thymus NEC

Long Description: Other specified diseases of thymus gland

Code Classification:

• Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders (240–279)
  • Diseases of other endocrine glands (249-259)
    • 254 Diseases of thymus gland
      • 254.8 Diseases of thymus NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Atrophy of thymus gland
• Cyst of thymus gland
• Hematoma of thymus
• Hemorrhage of thymus

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 254.8 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Asthma, asthmatic (bronchial) (catarrh) (spasmodic) 493.9
  • Kopp's 254.8
  • thymic 254.8

• Atrophy, atrophic
  • fatty, thymus (gland) 254.8
  • thymus (fat) 254.8

• Convulsions (idiopathic) 780.39
  • thymic 254.8

• Cyst (mucus) (retention) (serous) (simple)
  • thymus (gland) 254.8

• Degeneration, degenerative
  • thymus (gland) 254.8
    • fatty 254.8
    • lardaceous 277.39

• Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • thymus (gland) 254.9
    • specified NEC 254.8

• Emphysema (atrophic) (centriacinar) (centrilobular) (chronic) (diffuse) (essential) (hypertrophic) (interlobular) (lung) (obstructive) (panlobular) (paracicatricial) (paracinar) (postural) (pulmonary) (senile) (subpleural) (traction) (unilateral) (unilobular) (vesicular) 492.8
  • thymus (gland) (congenital) 254.8

• Failure, failed
  • involution, thymus (gland) 254.8

• Fibrosis, fibrotic
  • thymus (gland) 254.8

• Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (nontraumatic) 459.0
  • thymus (gland) 254.8

• Hyperthymism 254.8

• Infiltrate, infiltration
  • thymus (gland) (fatty) 254.8

• Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation)
  • thymus (gland) 254.8

• Involution, involutional - see also condition
  • thymus failure 254.8

• Kopp's asthma 254.8

• Lymphatism 254.8
  • scrofulous (see also Tuberculosis) 017.2

• Necrosis, necrotic
  • thymus (gland) 254.8

• Persistence, persistent (congenital) 759.89
  • thymus (gland) 254.8
    • hyperplasia 254.0

• Status (post)
  • lymphaticus 254.8
  • thymicolymphaticus 254.8
  • thymicus 254.8
  • thymolymphaticus 254.8

• Thymitis 254.8

Crosswalk Information

The code 254.8 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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