ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K00-K14 › K13.2 Leukoplakia and other disturbances... › K13.29
Other disturbances of oral epithelium, including tongue
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 Other disturbances of oral epithelium, including tongue
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 K13 Other diseases of lip and oral mucosa
Excludes2 - not included here
- certain disorders of gingiva and edentulous alveolar ridge (K05-K06)
- cysts of oral region (K09.-)
- diseases of tongue (K14.-)
- stomatitis and related lesions (K12.-)
Use additional code
- code to identify:
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)
Includes
- epithelial disturbances of tongue
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.
- Sauriasis
- Xeroderma
- Plaque > tongue
- Lingua > tylosis
- Psoriasis > mouth
- Tylosis > linguae
- Psoriasis > buccal
- Tylosis > buccalis
- Ichthyosis > lingual
- White > patches of mouth
- Leukoedema, oral epithelium
- Disturbance > keratinization NEC > oral
- Disturbance > keratinization NEC > tongue
- Erythroplakia, oral epithelium, and tongue
- Hyperplasia, hyperplastic > epithelial > tongue
- Disturbance > oral epithelium, including tongue NEC
- Hyperplasia, hyperplastic > epithelial > focal, oral, including tongue
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K13.21 | Leukoplakia of oral mucosa, including tongue | Valid |
| K13.22 | Minimal keratinized residual ridge mucosa | Valid |
| K13.23 | Excessive keratinized residual ridge mucosa | Valid |
| K13.24 | Leukokeratosis nicotina palati | Valid |