ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L00-L08 › L03.01 Cellulitis of finger › L03.012
Cellulitis of left finger
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 Cellulitis of left finger
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 L03 Cellulitis and acute lymphangitis
Excludes2 - not included here
- cellulitis of anal and rectal region (K61.-)
- cellulitis of external auditory canal (H60.1)
- cellulitis of eyelid (H00.0)
- cellulitis of female external genital organs (N76.4)
- cellulitis of lacrimal apparatus (H04.3)
- cellulitis of male external genital organs (N48.2, N49.-)
- cellulitis of mouth (K12.2)
- cellulitis of nose (J34.0)
- eosinophilic cellulitis [Wells] (L98.3)
- febrile neutrophilic dermatosis [Sweet] (L98.2)
- lymphangitis (chronic) (subacute) (I89.1)
Inherited from the L00-L08 section Infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L08)
Excludes2 - not included here
- hordeolum (H00.0)
- infective dermatitis (L30.3)
- local infections of skin classified in Chapter 1
- lupus panniculitis (L93.2)
- panniculitis NOS (M79.3)
- panniculitis of neck and back (M54.0-)
- Perlèche NOS (K13.0)
- Perlèche due to candidiasis (B37.0)
- Perlèche due to riboflavin deficiency (E53.0)
- pyogenic granuloma (L98.0)
- relapsing panniculitis [Weber-Christian] (M35.6)
- viral warts (B07.-)
- zoster (B02.-)
Use additional code
- code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent.
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.
- Felon
- Onychia
- Whitlow
- Hangnail
- Onyxitis
- Onychitis
- Paronychia
- Perionychia
- Septic > arm
- Septic > toe
- Septic > hand
- Septic > nail
- Pericellulitis
- Septic > finger
- Cellulitis > arm
- Cellulitis > hand
- Cellulitis > thumb
- Cellulitis > wrist
- Panaris, panaritium
- Cellulitis > shoulder
- Abscess > thumb > nail
- Abscess > finger > nail
- Cellulitis > digit > finger
- Cellulitis > upper limb > thumb
- Cellulitis > upper limb > finger
- Cellulitis > finger
- Infection, infected, infective > finger > nail
- Infection, infected, infective > nail > finger
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L03.011 | Cellulitis of right finger | Valid |
| L03.019 | Cellulitis of unspecified finger | Valid |