ICD-10-CM › C00-D49 › C30-C39 › C32 Malignant neoplasm of larynx › C32.3

C32.3

Malignant neoplasm of laryngeal cartilage

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Malignant neoplasm of laryngeal cartilage

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 C32 Malignant neoplasm of larynx

Use additional code

  • code to identify:
  • alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
  • exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
  • exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
  • occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
  • tobacco dependence (F17.-)
  • tobacco use (Z72.0)

Inherited from the C30-C39 section Malignant neoplasms of respiratory and intrathoracic organs (C30-C39)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • mesothelioma (C45.-)

Includes

  • malignant neoplasm of middle ear

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
C32.0 Malignant neoplasm of glottis Valid
C32.1 Malignant neoplasm of supraglottis Valid
C32.2 Malignant neoplasm of subglottis Valid
C32.8 Malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of larynx Valid
C32.9 Malignant neoplasm of larynx, unspecified Valid