N73.3
Female acute pelvic peritonitis
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 11 never code together
N70-N77block
N00-N99chapter
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
- 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 1
Index entries leading here 1
Alongside this code 8 same parent — N73
N73.0 Acute parametritis and pelvic cellulitis N73.1 Chronic parametritis and pelvic cellulitis N73.2 Unspecified parametritis and pelvic cellulitis N73.4 Female chronic pelvic peritonitis N73.5 Female pelvic peritonitis, unspecified N73.6 Female pelvic peritoneal adhesions (postinfective) N73.8 Other specified female pelvic inflammatory diseases N73.9 Female pelvic inflammatory disease, unspecified
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