015.20 - Tuberculosis Of Knee, Unspecified
The ICD 9 Code for
Tuberculosis of knee, unspecified is listed as
015.20. Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
| ICD 9 CM Field |
Value |
| Diagnosis Code: |
015.20 |
| Long Description: |
Tuberculosis of knee, unspecified |
| Short Description: |
TB of knee-unspec |
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| Chapter: |
Infectious And Parasitic Diseases |
| Block: |
Tuberculosis (010-018) |
| ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS): |
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| ICD-10-CM Code: |
A18.02 - Tuberculous arthritis of other joints (approximate) |
| ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 015.20: |
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| 015.21 - Tuberculosis of knee, bacteriological or histological examination not done |
| 015.22 - Tuberculosis of knee, bacteriological or histological examination unknown (at present) |
| 015.23 - Tuberculosis of knee, tubercle bacilli found (in sputum) by microscopy |
| 015.24 - Tuberculosis of knee, tubercle bacilli not found (in sputum) by microscopy, but found by bacterial culture |
| 015.25 - Tuberculosis of knee, tubercle bacilli not found by bacteriological examination, but tuberculosis confirmed histologically |
| 015.26 - Tuberculosis of knee, tubercle bacilli not found by bacteriological or histological examination, but tuberculosis confirmed by other methods [inoculation of animals] |
