Abdominal tenderness
Non-billable header
R10.81 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Abdominal tenderness NOS
Includes (from R10)
- Note: This chapter includes symptoms, signs, abnormal results of clinical or other investigative procedures, and ill-defined conditions regarding which no diagnosis classifiable elsewhere is recorded.
- Note: Signs and symptoms that point rather definitely to a given diagnosis have been assigned to a category in other chapters of the classification. In general, categories in this chapter include the less well-defined conditions and symptoms that, without the necessary study of the case to establish a final diagnosis, point perhaps equally to two or more diseases or to two or more systems of the body. Practically all categories in the chapter could be designated 'not otherwise specified', 'unknown etiology' or 'transient'. The Alphabetical Index should be consulted to determine which symptoms and signs are to be allocated here and which to other chapters. The residual subcategories, numbered .8, are generally provided for other relevant symptoms that cannot be allocated elsewhere in the classification.
- Note: The conditions and signs or symptoms included in categories R00-R94 consist of:
- Note: (a) cases for which no more specific diagnosis can be made even after all the facts bearing on the case have been investigated;
- Note: (b) signs or symptoms existing at the time of initial encounter that proved to be transient and whose causes could not be determined;
- Note: (c) provisional diagnosis in a patient who failed to return for further investigation or care;
- Note: (d) cases referred elsewhere for investigation or treatment before the diagnosis was made;
- Note: (e) cases in which a more precise diagnosis was not available for any other reason;
- Note: (f) certain symptoms, for which supplementary information is provided, that represent important problems in medical care in their own right.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- pain localized to other parts of lower abdomen (R10.3-)
- pain localized to upper abdomen (R10.1-)
- abnormal findings on antenatal screening of mother (O28.-) (from R10)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from R10)
- signs and symptoms classified in the body system chapters (from R10)
- signs and symptoms of breast (N63, N64.5) (from R10)
- congenital or infantile pylorospasm (Q40.0) (from R10)
- gastrointestinal hemorrhage (K92.0-K92.2) (from R10)
- intestinal obstruction (K56.-) (from R10)
- newborn gastrointestinal hemorrhage (P54.0-P54.3) (from R10)
- newborn intestinal obstruction (P76.-) (from R10)
- pylorospasm (K31.3) (from R10)
- signs and symptoms involving the urinary system (R30-R39) (from R10)
- symptoms referable to female genital organs (N94.-) (from R10)
- symptoms referable to male genital organs (N48-N50) (from R10)
- costovertebral (angle) tenderness (R39.85) (from R10)
- dorsalgia (M54.-) (from R10)
- flatulence and related conditions (R14.-) (from R10)
Also known as
- Abdominal tenderness NOS
Parent code
- R10.8Other abdominal painHeader
More specific codes R10.81
- R10.811Right upper quadrant abdominal tendernessBillable
- R10.812Left upper quadrant abdominal tendernessBillable
- R10.813Right lower quadrant abdominal tendernessBillable
- R10.814Left lower quadrant abdominal tendernessBillable
- R10.815Periumbilic abdominal tendernessBillable
- R10.816Epigastric abdominal tendernessBillable
- R10.817Generalized abdominal tendernessBillable
- R10.819Abdominal tenderness, unspecified siteBillable