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Specific code 2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 577.8
Other specified diseases of pancreas
  • Short description: PANCREATIC DISEASE NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 577.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 577.8 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2008 version of ICD-9-CM 577.8.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 577.8: 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 577.8 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM K86.1 Other chronic pancreatitis
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM K86.8 Other specified diseases of pancreas
Approximate Synonyms
  • Acute pancreatic fluid collection
  • Aseptic necrosis of pancreas
  • Atrophy of pancreas
  • Baggenstoss change of pancreas
  • Calcific chronic pancreatitis
  • Calculus of pancreas
  • Congenital pancreatic enterokinase deficiency
  • Congenital pancreatic trypsin deficiency
  • Courvoisier's sign
  • Disorder of pancreatic duct anastomosis
  • Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency
  • Fat necrosis of pancreas
  • Fibrocalculous pancreatopathy without complication
  • Fibrosis of pancreas
  • Gallstone pancreatitis
  • Hemorrhage of pancreas
  • Hereditary pancreatitis
  • Mass of pancreas
  • Megaloblastic anemia due to pancreatic insufficiency
  • Metabolic pancreatitis
  • Necrosis of pancreas
  • Pancreas, Baggenstoss change
  • Pancreatemphraxis
  • Pancreatic acinar atrophy
  • Pancreatic acinar fistula
  • Pancreatic and peripancreatic necrosis
  • Pancreatic aseptic necrosis
  • Pancreatic atrophy
  • Pancreatic calculus
  • Pancreatic cirrhosis
  • Pancreatic collection
  • Pancreatic duct calculus
  • Pancreatic duct leakage
  • Pancreatic duct obstruction
  • Pancreatic duct obstruction by calculus
  • Pancreatic duct stricture
  • Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency
  • Pancreatic fistula
  • Pancreatic hemorrhage
  • Pancreatic infantilism
  • Pancreatic insufficiency
  • Pancreatic mass
  • Pancreatic necrosis
  • Pancreatic pain
  • Pancreatic trypsinogen deficiency
  • Pancreatitis (inflammation of pancreas) from gallstone
  • Pancreatitis, gallstone
  • Pseudolipomatosis hypertrophy of pancreas
  • Pseudopancreatic cholera syndrome
  • Subcutaneous nodular fat necrosis in pancreatitis
577.8 Excludes
  • fibrocystic disease of pancreas (277.00-277.09)
  • islet cell tumor of pancreas (211.7)
  • pancreatic steatorrhea (579.4)
Applies To
  • Atrophy of pancreas
  • Calculus of pancreas
  • Cirrhosis of pancreas
  • Fibrosis of pancreas
  • Pancreatic:
    • infantilism
    • necrosis:
      • NOS
      • aseptic
      • fat
  • Pancreatolithiasis
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 577.8:
  • Atrophy, atrophic
    • pancreas (duct) (senile) 577.8
  • Burke's syndrome 577.8
  • Calcification
    • pancreas 577.8
  • Calculus, calculi, calculous 592.9
    • pancreas (duct) 577.8
  • Cirrhosis, cirrhotic 571.5
    • pancreas (duct) 577.8
  • Clarke-Hadfield syndrome (pancreatic infantilism) 577.8
  • Colic (recurrent) 789.0
    • pancreas 577.8
  • Congestion, congestive
    • pancreas 577.8
  • Decrease, decreased
    • function
      • adrenal (cortex) 255.41
      • ovary in hypopituitarism 253.4
      • parenchyma of pancreas 577.8
      • pituitary (gland) (lobe) (anterior) 253.2
  • Deficiency, deficient
    • lipocaic 577.8
  • Deformity 738.9
    • pancreas (congenital) 751.7
      • acquired 577.8
  • Degeneration, degenerative
    • pancreas 577.8
      • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis) 017.9
  • Dilatation
    • pancreatic duct 577.8
  • Dwarf, dwarfism 259.4
    • pancreatic 577.8
  • Edema, edematous 782.3
    • pancreas 577.8
  • Fibrosis, fibrotic
  • Fistula (sinus) 686.9
    • pancreatic 577.8
    • pancreaticoduodenal 577.8
  • Hadfield-Clarke syndrome (pancreatic infantilism) 577.8
  • Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (nontraumatic) 459.0
    • pancreas 577.8
  • Hyperfunction
    • pancreas 577.8
  • Infantilism 259.9
    • pancreatic 577.8
  • Infarct, infarction
    • pancreas 577.8
  • Insufficiency, insufficient
    • pancreatic 577.8
  • Necrosis, necrotic
    • fat, fatty (generalized) (see also Degeneration, fatty) 272.8
    • pancreas (aseptic) (duct) (fat) 577.8
  • Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive
    • pancreatic duct 577.8
  • Pancreatitis 577.0
    • fibrous 577.8
  • Pancreatolithiasis 577.8
  • Peritonitis (acute) (adhesive) (fibrinous) (hemorrhagic) (idiopathic) (localized) (perforative) (primary) (with adhesions) (with effusion) 567.9
    • pancreatic 577.8
  • Rupture, ruptured 553.9
    • pancreas 577.8
      • traumatic - see Injury, internal, pancreas
  • Sclerosis, sclerotic
    • pancreas 577.8
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Burke's (pancreatic insufficiency and chronic neutropenia) 577.8
    • Clarke-Hadfield (pancreatic infantilism) 577.8
    • Hadfield-Clarke (pancreatic infantilism) 577.8
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