ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N70-N77 › N73 Other female pelvic inflammatory diseases › N73.3
Female acute pelvic peritonitis
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 Female acute pelvic peritonitis
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 N73 Other female pelvic inflammatory diseases
Use additional code
- code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent.
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.
- Omentitis
- Epiploitis
- Metroperitonitis
- Pelviperitonitis
- Enteroperitonitis
- Abscess > cul-de-sac
- Abscess > retrouterine
- Irritation > peritoneum
- Abscess > intra-abdominal
- Abscess > pouch of Douglas
- Abscess > vesico-uterine pouch
- Abscess > Douglas' cul-de-sac or pouch
- Abscess > extraperitoneal > meaning pelvic
- Infection, infected, infective > peritoneal
- Abscess > pelvis, pelvic > female - > peritoneal
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > peritoneum
- Abscess > peritoneum, peritoneal > pelvic > female
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > retroperitoneal
- Peritonitis > pelvic > female > acute
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N73.0 | Acute parametritis and pelvic cellulitis | Valid |
| N73.1 | Chronic parametritis and pelvic cellulitis | Valid |
| N73.2 | Unspecified parametritis and pelvic cellulitis | Valid |
| N73.4 | Female chronic pelvic peritonitis | Valid |
| N73.5 | Female pelvic peritonitis, unspecified | Valid |
| N73.6 | Female pelvic peritoneal adhesions (postinfective) | Valid |
| N73.8 | Other specified female pelvic inflammatory diseases | Valid |
| N73.9 | Female pelvic inflammatory disease, unspecified | Valid |