ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N70-N77 › N71 Inflammatory disease of uterus,... › N71.1
Chronic inflammatory disease of uterus
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 Chronic inflammatory disease of uterus
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 N71 Inflammatory disease of uterus, except cervix
Excludes1 - never coded here
- hyperplastic endometritis (N85.0-)
- infection of uterus following delivery (O85, O86.-)
Use additional code
- code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent
Includes
- endo (myo) metritis
- metritis
- myometritis
- pyometra
- uterine abscess
Inherited from the N70-N77 section Inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs (N70-N77)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs complicating:
- abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.0)
- pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O23.-, O75.3, O85, O86.-)
Code also
- , if applicable, pelvic abscess (K6A.0-)
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.
- Metritis
- Phagedena
- Sloughing
- Sphacelus
- Myometritis
- Perimetritis
- Mortification
- Metrovaginitis
- Endomyometritis
- Septic > uterus
- Necrosis, necrotic
- Phlebitis > uterus
- Pemphigus > gangrenous
- Cellulitis > gangrenous
- Abscess > uterus, uterine
- Gangrene, gangrenous > uterus
- Dropsy, dropsical > gangrenous
- Pyometra, pyometrium, pyometritis
- Suppuration, suppurative > uterus
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > metritis
- Disease, diseased > uterus > infective
- Disease, diseased > uterus > inflammatory
- Postmenopausal > endometrium > suppurative
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > uterus
- Infection, infected, infective > uterus, uterine
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > gangrenous
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > skin > with gangrene
- Endometritis > chronic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N71.0 | Acute inflammatory disease of uterus | Valid |
| N71.9 | Inflammatory disease of uterus, unspecified | Valid |