ICD-9 Code 782.9

Other symptoms involving skin and integumentary tissues

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782.9 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other symptoms involving skin and integumentary tissues. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

ICD-9: 782.9
Short Description:Integument tiss symp NEC
Long Description:Other symptoms involving skin and integumentary tissues

Convert 782.9 to ICD-10

The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:

  • R23.8 - Other skin changes

Code Classification

  • Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions (780–799)
    • Symptoms (780-789)
      • 782 Symptoms involving skin and other integumentary tissue

Information for Medical Professionals

Synonyms

  • Abdominal skin ptosis
  • Abnormal foot color
  • Abnormality of nail of toe
  • Absence of secondary sexual hair
  • Absent exocrine gland secretion
  • Altered sensation of skin
  • Blanching of skin of lower leg on elevation
  • Body fat unevenly distributed
  • Boggy periwound skin
  • Buttock crease asymmetrical
  • Clammy skin
  • Complaining of dry skin
  • Complexion changes
  • Conspicuous skin donor site
  • Decreased stratum corneum adhesiveness
  • Dermatological pathomimicry
  • Dimpling of surface of breast
  • Discharge from skin ulcer
  • Discoloration of skin
  • Does bruise easily
  • Dusky discoloration of skin
  • Ear lobe skin crease
  • Easy bruising
  • Fatty dimpling of skin
  • Finding related to bruising
  • Florid red complexion
  • Foot dusky pink when dependent
  • Full thickness skin and subcutaneous tissue loss
  • Greasy skin
  • Hutchinson's mask
  • Increase in body fat
  • Increase in surface veins of breast
  • Increased body fat in lower part of body
  • Increased body fat in upper part of body
  • Increased skin pH
  • Increased skin temperature
  • Increased stratum corneum adhesiveness
  • Induration of mucosa
  • Inflammatory disease of mucous membrane
  • Leonine facies
  • Limited sensory perception
  • Livedo
  • Localized loss of body fat
  • Loss of abdominal skin turgor
  • Loss of body fat unevenly distributed
  • Loss of fat in upper body
  • Loss of subcutaneous fat
  • Macerated perianal skin
  • Mass of skin
  • Moist skin
  • Mucosal vesicle
  • Mucous membrane hyperplasia
  • Nail changes
  • Non-healing pigmented skin lesion
  • Offensive wound odor
  • Omega sign
  • On examination - abdominal scar
  • On examination - abdominal skin dry - dehydration
  • On examination - abdominal wall skin stretched
  • On examination - abnormal foot color
  • On examination - cracked skin of feet
  • On examination - cracked skin of hands
  • On examination - dry skin
  • On examination - flattened umbilicus
  • On examination - lax abdominal wall
  • On examination - lesion
  • On examination - nose crusting
  • On examination - red nose
  • On examination - sign tethered to skin
  • On examination - sinus in skin
  • On examination - skin - large scales
  • On examination - skin - small scales
  • On examination - skin burrows
  • On examination - skin burrows present
  • On examination - skin color abnormal
  • On examination - skin crust
  • On examination - skin crust - blood
  • On examination - skin crust - pus
  • On examination - skin crust - serum
  • On examination - skin crust present
  • On examination - skin pigmented over lesion
  • On examination - skin plaques
  • On examination - skin plaques present
  • On examination - skin scales
  • On examination - skin shiny over lesion
  • On examination - skin sinus-post operation
  • On examination - skin temperature abnormal
  • On examination - soft tissue crepitus
  • On examination - trophic changes
  • On examination - wound healing delayed
  • Osler's node of foot
  • Scalp tenderness
  • Sepsis with cutaneous manifestations
  • Severe dry skin
  • Shiny skin
  • Skin drag
  • Skin folds visible on edematous limb
  • Skin loss exposing bone
  • Skin problem
  • Skin reaction strong
  • Skin symptom
  • Skin symptom change
  • Smells ammoniacal
  • Soft tissue compliance
  • Sweet fruity body odor
  • Symptom of skin and integumentary tissue
  • Tissue bogginess
  • Tissue deformation
  • Tubular breast
  • Unhealthy skin
  • Uremic fetor
  • Veraguth's folds
  • Volume loss of face
  • Warm skin
  • Wide spaced nipples
  • Wiry hair
  • Wound odor
  • Wound slough
  • Yellow - symptom

Index to Diseases and Injuries

References found for the code 782.9 in the Index of Diseases and Injuries:


Information for Patients


Skin Conditions

Your skin is your body's largest organ. It covers and protects your body. Your skin:

  • Holds body fluids in, preventing dehydration
  • Keeps harmful microbes out, preventing infections
  • Helps you feel things like heat, cold, and pain
  • Keeps your body temperature even
  • Makes vitamin D when the sun shines on it

Anything that irritates, clogs, or inflames your skin can cause symptoms such as redness, swelling, burning, and itching. Allergies, irritants, your genetic makeup, and certain diseases and immune system problems can cause rashes, hives, and other skin conditions. Many skin problems, such as acne, also affect your appearance.

NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases


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ICD-9 Footnotes

General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.

  • Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
  • No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
  • Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.

Index of Diseases and Injuries Definitions

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