ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N30-N39 › N35.91 Urethral stricture, unspecified, male › N35.916
N35.916
Unspecified urethral stricture, male, overlapping sites
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 2019 to now.
- FY2019 Added to the code set Unspecified urethral stricture, male, overlapping sites
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 N35 Urethral stricture
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital urethral stricture (Q64.3-)
- postprocedural urethral stricture (N99.1-)
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.
- Ankylurethria
- Pinhole meatus
- Pinpoint > meatus
- Narrowing > urethra
- Stricture > urethra
- Constriction > urethra
- Obliteration > urethra
- Stricture > urinary meatus
- Stenosis, stenotic > urethra
- Occlusion, occluded > urethra
- Stricture > meatus > urinarius
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > urethra
- Stricture > urethra > male > overlapping sites
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N35.911 | Unspecified urethral stricture, male, meatal | Valid |
| N35.912 | Unspecified bulbous urethral stricture, male | Valid |
| N35.913 | Unspecified membranous urethral stricture, male | Valid |
| N35.914 | Unspecified anterior urethral stricture, male | Valid |
| N35.919 | Unspecified urethral stricture, male, unspecified site | Valid |