Scotoma of blind spot area
Non-billable header
H53.42 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Enlarged blind spot
Includes (from H53)
- Note: Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from H53)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from H53)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from H53)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from H53)
- diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-) (from H53)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from H53)
- injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-) (from H53)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from H53)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from H53)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from H53)
- syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71) (from H53)
Also known as
- Enlarged blind spot
Parent code
- H53.4Visual field defectsHeader
More specific codes H53.42
Related codes
- H53.40Unspecified visual field defectsBillable
- H53.41Scotoma involving central areaHeader
- H53.43Sector or arcuate defectsHeader
- H53.45Other localized visual field defectHeader
- H53.46Homonymous bilateral field defectsHeader
- H53.47Heteronymous bilateral field defectsBillable
- H53.48Generalized contraction of visual fieldHeader