Acute sinusitis, unspecified
Non-billable header
J01.9 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from J01)
- acute abscess of sinus
- acute empyema of sinus
- acute infection of sinus
- acute inflammation of sinus
- acute suppuration of sinus
- Note: When a respiratory condition is described as occurring in more than one site and is not specifically indexed, it should be classified to the lower anatomic site (e.g. tracheobronchitis to bronchitis in J40).
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from J01)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from J01)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from J01)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from J01)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from J01)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from J01)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from J01)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-) (from J01)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from J01)
- chronic sinusitis (J32.0-J32.8) (from J01)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code, where applicable, to identify: (from J01)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) (from J01)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) (from J01)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) (from J01)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) (from J01)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-) (from J01)
- tobacco use (Z72.0) (from J01)
- code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent. (from J01)