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253.8 - Other Disorders Of The Pituitary And Other Syndromes Of Diencephalohypophyseal Origin


The ICD 9 Code for Other disorders of the pituitary and other syndromes of diencephalohypophyseal origin is listed as 253.8.
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: 253.8
Long Description: Other disorders of the pituitary and other syndromes of diencephalohypophyseal origin
Short Description: Pituitary disorder NEC
Chapter: Endocrine, Nutritional And Metabolic Diseases, And Immunity Disorders
Block: Diseases Of Other Endocrine Glands (249-259)
Related Descriptions: Abscess of pituitary
Adiposogenital dystrophy
Arachnoid cyst of pituitary
Autoimmune hypophysitis
Colloid cyst of pituitary gland
Diencephalic syndrome
Diencephalic syndrome of infancy
Diencephalic syndrome secondary to tumor
Empty sella syndrome
Female infertility of pituitary - hypothalamic origin
Granuloma of pituitary and hypothalamus
Granulomatous giant-cell hypophysitis
Mass of hypothalamus
Mass of pituitary
Oxytocin deficiency
Pituitary apoplexy
Pituitary cyst
Pituitary dwarfism with large sella turcica
Pituitary dwarfism with small sella turcica
Pituitary gland enlarged
Pituitary hemorrhage
Pituitary infarction
Rathke's pouch cyst
Renon-Delille syndrome
Secondary pituitary - hypothalamic infertility
Syndrome of diencephalo-hypophyseal origin
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: E23.6 - Other disorders of pituitary gland (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 253.8:
253.0 - Acromegaly and gigantism
253.1 - Other and unspecified anterior pituitary hyperfunction
253.2 - Panhypopituitarism
253.3 - Pituitary dwarfism
253.4 - Other anterior pituitary disorders
253.5 - Diabetes insipidus
253.6 - Other disorders of neurohypophysis
253.7 - Iatrogenic pituitary disorders
253.9 - Unspecified disorder of the pituitary gland and its hypothalamic control