ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H00-H05 › H04.53 Neonatal obstruction of nasolacrimal duct › H04.533
Neonatal obstruction of bilateral nasolacrimal duct
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 Neonatal obstruction of bilateral nasolacrimal duct
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 H04 Disorders of lacrimal system
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital malformations of lacrimal system (Q10.4-Q10.6)
Inherited from the H00-H05 section Disorders of eyelid, lacrimal system and orbit (H00-H05)
Excludes2 - not included here
- open wound of eyelid (S01.1-)
- superficial injury of eyelid (S00.1-, S00.2-)
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.
- Icterus
- Cholemia
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Yellow > jaundice
- Punctum lacrimale occlusion
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Cicatrix > lacrimal passages
- Disease, diseased > tear duct
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Disease, diseased > lacrimal system
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Occlusion, occluded > lacrimal passages
- Occlusion, occluded > punctum lacrimale
- Disorder > lacrimal system > obstruction
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Constriction > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obliteration > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Block, blocked > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Stenosis, stenotic > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Occlusion, occluded > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > lacrimonasal duct
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > nasolacrimal duct
- Strangulation, strangulated > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > lacrimal > neonatal
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H04.531 | Neonatal obstruction of right nasolacrimal duct | Valid |
| H04.532 | Neonatal obstruction of left nasolacrimal duct | Valid |
| H04.539 | Neonatal obstruction of unspecified nasolacrimal duct | Valid |