ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q38-Q45 › Q42 Congenital absence, atresia and... › Q42.3
Congenital absence, atresia and stenosis of anus without fistula
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 Congenital absence, atresia and stenosis of anus without fistula
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 Q42 Congenital absence, atresia and stenosis of large intestine
Includes
- congenital obstruction, occlusion and stricture of large intestine
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.
- Stump
- Aplasia
- Missing
- Immature
- Amputation
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Rudimentary
- Disarticulation
- Underdevelopment
- Vestige, vestigial
- Loss > organ or part
- Stroke > cryptogenic
- Absence > toe > with foot
- Prematurity NEC > extreme
- Disease, diseased > artery
- Undeveloped, undevelopment
- Infarct, infarction > brain
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Birth > immature > extremely
- Immature > birth > extremely
- Premature > newborn > extreme
- Immaturity > organ or site NEC
- Infarct, infarction > cerebellar
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Absence > congenital > organ or site NEC
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Unilateral > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Constriction > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obliteration > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Block, blocked > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Nondevelopment > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Stenosis, stenotic > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Development > incomplete > organ or site not listed
- Occlusion, occluded > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Strangulation, strangulated > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Absence > anus
Showing 40 of 51 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q42.0 | Congenital absence, atresia and stenosis of rectum with fistula | Valid |
| Q42.1 | Congenital absence, atresia and stenosis of rectum without fistula | Valid |
| Q42.2 | Congenital absence, atresia and stenosis of anus with fistula | Valid |
| Q42.8 | Congenital absence, atresia and stenosis of other parts of large intestine | Valid |
| Q42.9 | Congenital absence, atresia and stenosis of large intestine, part unspecified | Valid |