Other disturbances of oral epithelium, including tongue
Billable / specific
K13.29 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Erythroplakia of mouth or tongue
- Focal epithelial hyperplasia of mouth or tongue
- Leukoedema of mouth or tongue
- Other oral epithelium disturbances
Includes (from K13)
- epithelial disturbances of tongue
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 K13)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K13)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K13)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K13)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K13)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K13)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K13)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K13)
- certain disorders of gingiva and edentulous alveolar ridge (K05-K06) (from K13)
- cysts of oral region (K09.-) (from K13)
- diseases of tongue (K14.-) (from K13)
- stomatitis and related lesions (K12.-) (from K13)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code to identify: (from K13)
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-) (from K13)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) (from K13)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) (from K13)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) (from K13)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) (from K13)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-) (from K13)
- tobacco use (Z72.0) (from K13)
Also known as
- Erythroplakia of mouth or tongue
- Focal epithelial hyperplasia of mouth or tongue
- Leukoedema of mouth or tongue
- Other oral epithelium disturbances
- Disturbance, keratinization NEC, oral
- Disturbance, keratinization NEC, tongue
- Disturbance, oral epithelium, including tongue NEC
- Erythroplakia, oral epithelium, and tongue
- Hyperplasia, hyperplastic, epithelial, focal, oral, including tongue
- Hyperplasia, hyperplastic, epithelial, tongue
- Ichthyosis, lingual
- Leukoedema, oral epithelium
- Lingua, tylosis
- Plaque, tongue
- Psoriasis, buccal
- Psoriasis, mouth
- Tylosis, buccalis
- Tylosis, linguae
- White, patches of mouth
Parent code
- K13.2Leukoplakia and other disturbances of oral epithelium, including tongueHeader