ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N70-N77 › N77 Vulvovaginal ulceration and... › N77.1
Vaginitis, vulvitis and vulvovaginitis in diseases classified elsewhere
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 Vaginitis, vulvitis and vulvovaginitis in diseases classified elsewhere
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 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.
- Colpitis
- Pyocolpos
- Vaginosis
- Colpocystitis
- Paravaginitis
- Perivaginitis
- Vulvovaginitis
- Abscess > vagina
- Abscess > paravaginal
- Abscess > vaginorectal
- Infection, infected, infective > vagina
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > vagina
- Vaginitis > in > pinworm infection
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N77.0 | Ulceration of vulva in diseases classified elsewhere | Valid |