ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › B00-B09 › B05.8 Measles with other complications › B05.81
Measles keratitis and keratoconjunctivitis
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Measles keratitis and keratoconjunctivitis
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from B05 Measles
Excludes1 - never coded here
- subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (A81.1)
Includes
- morbilli
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Leukoma
- Rubeola
- Morbilli
- Nebula, cornea
- Phlyctenulosis
- Phlyctenulosis > cornea
- Disorder > cornea > scar
- Keloid, cheloid > cornea
- Macula > cornea, corneal
- Disorder > cornea > keratitis
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > cornea
- Lagophthalmos > keratoconjunctivitis
- Scar, scarring > cornea > xerophthalmic
- Disorder > cornea > keratoconjunctivitis
- Opacity, opacities > cornea > inflammatory
- Disorder > eyelid > function > lagophthalmos
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > cornea
- Keratitis > superficial > with conjunctivitis
- Xerophthalmia > unrelated to vitamin A deficiency
- Keratitis > postmeasles
- Keratitis > in > measles
- Measles > with > keratitis
- Keratoconjunctivitis > postmeasles
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| B05.89 | Other measles complications | Valid |