ICD-10-CM › C00-D49 › D10-D36 › D31.2 Benign neoplasm of retina › D31.21
Benign neoplasm of right retina
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 Benign neoplasm of right retina
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 D31 Benign neoplasm of eye and adnexa
Excludes1 - never coded here
- benign neoplasm of connective tissue of eyelid (D21.0)
- benign neoplasm of optic nerve (D33.3)
- benign neoplasm of skin of eyelid (D22.1-, D23.1-)
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.
- Melanosarcoma
- Nevocarcinoma
- Melanoblastoma
- Melanocarcinoma
- Mole > cancerous
- Melanoepithelioma
- Nevus > malignant
- Sarcoma > melanotic
- Nevus > blue > malignant
- Lentigo > maligna > melanoma
- Freckle > malignant melanoma in
- Melanosarcoma > epithelioid cell
- Mole > malignant > meaning > melanoma
- Melanosis > precancerous > malignant melanoma in
- Nevus > pigmented > giant > malignant melanoma in
- Hutchinson's > melanotic freckle > malignant melanoma in
- Nevus > retina
- Neoplasm, neoplastic > retina
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| D31.20 | Benign neoplasm of unspecified retina | Valid |
| D31.22 | Benign neoplasm of left retina | Valid |