331.3 - Communicating Hydrocephalus
The ICD 9 Code for Communicating hydrocephalus is listed as 331.3.
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: | 331.3 |
| Long Description: | Communicating hydrocephalus |
| Short Description: | Communicat hydrocephalus |
| Chapter: | Diseases Of The Nervous System And Sense Organs |
| Block: | Hereditary And Degenerative Diseases Of The Central Nervous System (330-337) |
| ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS): | |
| ICD-10-CM Code: | G91.0 - Communicating hydrocephalus |
| ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 331.3: | |
| 331.0 - Alzheimer's disease | |
| 331.2 - Senile degeneration of brain | |
| 331.4 - Obstructive hydrocephalus | |
| 331.5 - Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (INPH) | |
| 331.6 - Corticobasal degeneration | |
| 331.7 - Cerebral degeneration in diseases classified elsewhere | |
| 331.9 - Cerebral degeneration, unspecified | |