709.3 DEGENERATIVE SKIN DISORD


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 709.3

Short Description: Degenerative skin disord

Long Description: Degenerative skin disorders

Code Classification:

  • Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (680–709)
    • Other diseases of skin and subcutaneous tissue (700-709)
      • 709 Other disorders of skin and subcutaneous tissue
        • 709.3 Degenerative skin disord

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 709.3 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Calcification
    • subcutaneous 709.3
  • Calcinosis (generalized) (interstitial) (tumoral) (universalis) 275.49
    • circumscripta 709.3
    • cutis 709.3
  • Colloid milium 709.3
  • Cutis - see also condition
    • osteosis 709.3
  • Degeneration, degenerative
    • cutis 709.3
      • amyloid 277.39
    • skin 709.3
      • amyloid 277.39
      • colloid 709.3
  • Deposit
    • cholesterol
      • skin 709.3
    • skin 709.3
  • Dermatosis 709.9
    • senile NEC 709.3
  • Dermopathy
    • senile NEC 709.3
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • Miescher's 709.3
    • Oppenheim-Urbach (necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum) 250.8 [709.3]
      • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [709.3]
    • Urbach-Oppenheim (necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum) 250.8 [709.3]
      • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [709.3]
    • Wagner's (colloid milium) 709.3
  • Formation
    • bone in scar tissue (skin) 709.3
  • Granulomatosis NEC 686.1
    • disciformis chronica et progressiva 709.3
  • Metaplasia
    • bone, in skin 709.3
  • Miescher's disease 709.3
    • cheilitis 351.8
    • granulomatosis disciformis 709.3
  • Miescher-Leder syndrome or granulomatosis 709.3
  • Milium (see also Cyst, sebaceous) 706.2
    • colloid 709.3
  • Necrobiosis 799.89
    • lipoidica 709.3
      • diabeticorum 250.8 [709.3]
        • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [709.3]
  • Necrosis, necrotic
    • fat, fatty (generalized) (see also Degeneration, fatty) 272.8
      • skin (subcutaneous) 709.3
        • newborn 778.1
    • subcutaneous fat 709.3
      • fetus or newborn 778.1
  • Oppenheim-Urbach disease or syndrome (necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum) 250.8 [709.3]
    • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [709.3]
  • Osteosis
    • cutis 709.3
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Miescher's
      • granulomatosis disciformis 709.3
    • Oppenheim-Urbach (necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum) 250.8 [709.3]
      • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [709.3]
    • Urbach-Oppenheim (necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum) 250.8 [709.3]
      • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [709.3]
  • Urbach-Oppenheim disease or syndrome (necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum) 250.8 [709.3]
    • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [709.3]
  • Wagner's disease (colloid milium) 709.3

Crosswalk Information

The code 709.3 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
709.3 Right Arrow L92.1 Necrobiosis lipoidica, not elsewhere classified
L94.2 Calcinosis cutis
L98.8 Oth disrd of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
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
709.00 Dyschromia, unspecified
709.01 Vitiligo
709.09 Other dyschromia
709.1 Vascular disorders of skin
709.2 Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin
709.4 Foreign body granuloma of skin and subcutaneous tissue
709.8 Other specified disorders of skin
709.9 Unspecified disorder of skin and subcutaneous tissue


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