ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J30-J39 › J39 Other diseases of upper respiratory tract › J39.0
Retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal abscess
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 Retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal abscess
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 J39 Other diseases of upper respiratory tract
Excludes1 - never coded here
- acute respiratory infection NOS (J22)
- acute upper respiratory infection (J06.9)
- upper respiratory inflammation due to chemicals, gases, fumes or vapors (J68.2)
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.
- Carbunculus
- Abscess > parapharyngeal
- Abscess > peripharyngeal
- Abscess > postpharyngeal
- Abscess > retropharyngeal
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J39.1 | Other abscess of pharynx | Valid |
| J39.2 | Other diseases of pharynx | Valid |
| J39.3 | Upper respiratory tract hypersensitivity reaction, site unspecified | Valid |
| J39.8 | Other specified diseases of upper respiratory tract | Valid |
| J39.9 | Disease of upper respiratory tract, unspecified | Valid |