Diagnosis Code: 259.0

Short Description: Delay sexual develop NEC

Long Description: Delay in sexual development and puberty, not elsewhere classified

Code Classification:

• Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders (240–279)
  • Diseases of other endocrine glands (249-259)
    • 259 Other endocrine disorders
      • 259.0 Delay sexual develop NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Arrested puberty
• Constitutional delay of growth and puberty
• Delay in sexual development AND/OR puberty
• Delayed adrenarche
• Delayed female puberty
• Delayed growth of secondary sexual hair
• Delayed puberty
• Infantile uterus
• On examination - delayed puberty
• Prepubertal - no pubic hair

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 259.0 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Delay, delayed
  • development
    • sexual 259.0
  • puberty 259.0
  • sexual maturation, female 259.0

• Immaturity 765.1
  • sexual (female) (male) 259.0

• Inadequate, inadequacy
  • development
    • genitalia
      • after puberty NEC 259.0

• Infantile - see also condition
  • genitalia, genitals 259.0
    • in pregnancy or childbirth NEC 654.4
      • affecting fetus or newborn 763.89
      • causing obstructed labor 660.2
        • affecting fetus or newborn 763.1
  • os, uterus (see also Infantile, genitalia) 259.0
  • penis 259.0
  • uterus (see also Infantile, genitalia) 259.0

• Infantilism 259.9
  • sexual (with obesity) 259.0

• Puberty V21.1
  • delayed 259.0

• Sexual
  • immaturity (female) (male) 259.0

• Underdevelopment - see also Undeveloped sexual 259.0

• Undeveloped, undevelopment - see also Hypoplasia
  • uterus 259.0

Crosswalk Information

The code 259.0 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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