ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L00-L08 › L03.11 Cellulitis of other parts of limb › L03.111
Cellulitis of right axilla
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 right axilla
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.
- Septic > arm
- Septic > leg
- Septic > foot
- Septic > hand
- Pericellulitis
- Cellulitis > arm
- Cellulitis > hip
- Cellulitis > leg
- Cellulitis > foot
- Cellulitis > hand
- Cellulitis > heel
- Cellulitis > knee
- Cellulitis > ankle
- Cellulitis > thigh
- Cellulitis > wrist
- Cellulitis > shoulder
- Cellulitis > upper limb > axilla
- Cellulitis > axilla
- Cellulitis > lower limb
- Cellulitis > upper limb
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L03.112 | Cellulitis of left axilla | Valid |
| L03.113 | Cellulitis of right upper limb | Valid |
| L03.114 | Cellulitis of left upper limb | Valid |
| L03.115 | Cellulitis of right lower limb | Valid |
| L03.116 | Cellulitis of left lower limb | Valid |
| L03.119 | Cellulitis of unspecified part of limb | Valid |