ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N30-N39 › N34 Urethritis and urethral syndrome › N34.0
Urethral 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 Urethral 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 N34 Urethritis and urethral syndrome
Excludes2 - not included here
- Reiter's disease (M02.3-)
- urethritis in diseases with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (A50-A64)
- urethrotrigonitis (N30.3-)
Use additional code
- code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent.
Inherited from the N30-N39 section Other diseases of the urinary system (N30-N39)
Excludes2 - not included here
- urinary infection (complicating):
- abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.8)
- pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O23.-, O75.3, O86.2-)
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
- Pericellulitis
- Abscess > lacunar
- Abscess > urinary
- Pyocele > urethra
- Abscess > urethral
- Carbuncle > urethra
- Abscess > suburethral
- Abscess > periurethral
- Abscess > Cowper's gland
- Abscess > Littre's gland
- Cellulitis > periurethral
- Abscess > bulbourethral gland
- Abscess > Skene's duct or gland
- Abscess > perineum, perineal > urethra
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N34.1 | Nonspecific urethritis | Valid |
| N34.2 | Other urethritis | Valid |
| N34.3 | Urethral syndrome, unspecified | Valid |