J39.8
Other specified diseases of upper respiratory tract
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 12 never code together
J39code
J00-J99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-)T59.81-
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 8
J00-J99chapter
Notes
- When a respiratory condition is described as occurring in more than one site and is not specifically indexed, it should be classified to the lower anatomic site (e.g. tracheobronchitis to bronchitis in J40).J40
Use additional code
- code, where applicable, to identify:
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)Z77.22
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)P96.81
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)Z87.891
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)Z57.31
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)F17.-
- tobacco use (Z72.0)Z72.0
Index entries leading here 27
- Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic) L02.91
- Deformity Q89.9
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Adhesions, adhesive (postinfective) K66.0
- trachea J39.8
- Anosmia R43.0
- postinfectional J39.8
- Atrophy, atrophic (of)
- Calcification
- trachea J39.8
- Change (s) (in) (of) — see also Removal
- hypertrophic
- upper respiratory tract J39.8
- hypertrophic
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious) L90.5
- trachea J39.8
- Collapse R55
- trachea J39.8
- Compression
- trachea J39.8
- Deviation (in)
- trachea J39.8
- Diverticulum, diverticula (multiple) K57.90
- trachea (acquired) J39.8
- Dyskinesia G24.9
- trachea J39.8
- Hypersecretion
- upper respiratory J39.8
- Necrosis, necrotic (ischemic) — see also Gangrene
- trachea J39.8
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive
- trachea J39.8
- Ossification
- trachea J39.8
- Perichondritis
- trachea J39.8
- Scar, scarring L90.5
- trachea J39.8
- Stenosis, stenotic (cicatricial) — see also Stricture
- trachea J39.8
- Stricture — see also Stenosis
- trachea J39.8
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative
- trachea J39.8
- Tracheocele (external) (internal) J39.8
- Tracheomalacia J39.8
- Tracheostenosis J39.8
Alongside this code 5 same parent — J39
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
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