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N13.5 - Crossing vessel and stricture of ureter without hydronephrosis


The ICD 10 Code for Crossing vessel and stricture of ureter without hydronephrosis is listed as N13.5.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: N13.5
Description: Crossing vessel and stricture of ureter without hydronephrosis
  • Kinking and stricture of ureter without hydronephrosis
  • Excludes1: crossing vessel and stricture of ureter without hydronephrosis with infection (N13.6)
Diagnostic Related Groups
(MS-DRG v30.0)
689 - Kidney & Urinary Tract Infections W Mcc
690 - Kidney & Urinary Tract Infections W/o Mcc
Chapter Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99)
Block Renal tubulo-interstitial diseases (N10-N16)
Parent N13 - Obstructive and reflux uropathy
ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD 9 Dx Code: 593.3 - Stricture or kinking of ureter (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of N13.5:
N13.1 - Hydronephrosis with ureteral stricture, not elsewhere classified
N13.2 - Hydronephrosis with renal and ureteral calculous obstruction
N13.3 - Other and unspecified hydronephrosis
N13.4 - Hydroureter
N13.6 - Pyonephrosis
N13.7 - Vesicoureteral-reflux
N13.8 - Other obstructive and reflux uropathy
N13.9 - Obstructive and reflux uropathy, unspecified