L59.8
Other specified disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue related to radiation
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 10 never code together
L00-L99chapter
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
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8)I89.8
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)M30-M36
- viral warts (B07.-)B07.-
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes
No further instructional notes apply.
Index entries leading here 6
- Dermatitis (eczematous) L30.9
- Cheilitis (acute) (angular) (catarrhal) (chronic) (exfoliative) (gangrenous) (glandular) (infectional) (suppurative) (ulcerative) (vesicular) K13.0
- Effect, adverse
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative
- due to
- radiation NEC L59.8
- due to
- Photodermatitis (sun) L56.8
- light other than sun L59.8
- Photosensitivity, photosensitization (sun) skin L56.8
- light other than sun L59.8
Alongside this code 2 same parent — L59
Medications 5
41 Bipolar and Related Disorders drugs 20 Narcotic-Related Disorders drugs 20 Opioid-Related Disorders drugs 19 Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders drugs 10 Feeding and Eating Disorders drugs
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.
Additional references
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