ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I80-I89 › I86 Varicose veins of other sites › I86.0
Sublingual varices
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 Sublingual varices
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 I86 Varicose veins of other sites
Excludes1 - never coded here
- varicose veins of unspecified site (I83.9-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- retinal varices (H35.0-)
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.
- Varices
- Naga sore
- Veldt sore
- Sore > Naga
- Phlebectasia
- Sore > veldt
- Desert > sore
- Sore > desert
- Sore > of skin
- Sore > tropical
- Tortuous > vein
- Varicose > vein
- Tumor > varicose
- Varicose > tumor
- Aneurysm > venous
- Meleney's > ulcer
- Sloughing > ulcer
- Meleney's > gangrene
- Phagedena > tropical
- Ulcus > hypostaticum
- Barcoo disease or rot
- Rupture, ruptured > varix
- Gangrene, gangrenous > Meleney's
- Lesion > ulcerated or ulcerative
- Rupture, ruptured > varicose vein
- Varicosis, varicosities, varicosity
- Infection, infected, infective > skin > ulcer
- Gangrene, gangrenous > progressive synergistic
- Infection, infected, infective > varicose veins
- Infection, infected, infective > local, skin > ulcer
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > chronic
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > trophic
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > atrophic
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > tropical
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > fistulous
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > Meleney's
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > sloughing
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > phagedenic
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > hypostaticum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > neurogenic NEC
Showing 40 of 48 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I86.1 | Scrotal varices | Valid |
| I86.2 | Pelvic varices | Valid |
| I86.3 | Vulval varices | Valid |
| I86.4 | Gastric varices | Valid |
| I86.8 | Varicose veins of other specified sites | Valid |