L72.0
Epidermal cyst
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 11 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.-
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
No further instructional notes apply.
Index entries leading here 3
- Implantation
- cyst
- external area or site (skin) NEC L72.0
- cyst
- Cyst (colloid) (mucous) (simple) (retention)
- epidermal, epidermoid (inclusion) (see also Cyst, skin) L72.0
- epithelial (inclusion) L72.0
- implantation (dermoid)
- external area or site (skin) NEC L72.0
- inclusion (epidermal) (epithelial) (epidermoid) (squamous) L72.0
- skin L72.9
- dermoid — see Neoplasm, benign, by site
- implantation
- external area or site (skin) NEC L72.0
- implantation
- Milium L72.0
Alongside this code 5 same parent — L72
Additional references
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