ICD-10-CM › C00-D49 › C76-C80 › C78 Secondary malignant neoplasm of... › C78.4
Secondary malignant neoplasm of small intestine
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 Secondary malignant neoplasm of small intestine
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 C78 Secondary malignant neoplasm of respiratory and digestive organs
Excludes1 - never coded here
- secondary carcinoid tumors of liver (C7B.02)
- secondary carcinoid tumors of peritoneum (C7B.04)
Excludes2 - not included here
- lymph node metastases (C77.0)
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.
- Lump
- Vipoma
- Blastoma
- Check-up
- Diktyoma
- Cancerous
- Germinoma
- Cylindroma
- Malignancy
- Adenosarcoma
- Disgerminoma
- Mesonephroma
- Polyembryoma
- Investigation
- Adenoacanthoma
- Adenocarcinoid
- Adenocarcinoma
- Carcinosarcoma
- Teratoblastoma
- Choriocarcinoma
- Gastrocarcinoma
- Spongioblastoma
- Sympathogonioma
- Teratocarcinoma
- Bednar's > tumor
- Cyst > malignant
- Mass > malignant
- Neuroepithelioma
- Tumor > yolk sac
- Chorioepithelioma
- Lymphoepithelioma
- Tumor > germ cell
- Tumor > malignant
- Chorionepithelioma
- Cystadenocarcinoma
- Growth > malignant
- Medulloepithelioma
- Sarcoma > rhabdoid
- Teratoma > immature
- Cyst > carcinomatous
Showing 40 of 262 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| C78.0 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of lung | Not billable |
| C78.1 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of mediastinum | Valid |
| C78.2 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of pleura | Valid |
| C78.3 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of other and unspecified respiratory organs | Not billable |
| C78.5 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of large intestine and rectum | Valid |
| C78.6 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of retroperitoneum and peritoneum | Valid |
| C78.7 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of liver and intrahepatic bile duct | Valid |
| C78.8 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of other and unspecified digestive organs | Not billable |