1. C43 Malignant melanoma of skin

    Excludes1

    • melanoma in situ (D03.-)

    Excludes2

    • malignant melanoma of skin of genital organs (C51-C52, C60.-, C63.-)
    • Merkel cell carcinoma (C4A.-)
    • sites other than skin-code to malignant neoplasm of the site
    1. C43.0 Malignant melanoma of lip

    2. C43.1 Malignant melanoma of eyelid, including canthus

      1. C43.10 Malignant melanoma of unspecified eyelid, including canthus

      2. C43.11 Malignant melanoma of right eyelid, including canthus

        • C43.111 Malignant melanoma of right upper eyelid, including canthus
        • C43.112 Malignant melanoma of right lower eyelid, including canthus
      3. C43.12 Malignant melanoma of left eyelid, including canthus

        • C43.121 Malignant melanoma of left upper eyelid, including canthus
        • C43.122 Malignant melanoma of left lower eyelid, including canthus
    3. C43.2 Malignant melanoma of ear and external auricular canal

      1. C43.20 Malignant melanoma of unspecified ear and external auricular canal

      2. C43.21 Malignant melanoma of right ear and external auricular canal

      3. C43.22 Malignant melanoma of left ear and external auricular canal

    4. C43.3 Malignant melanoma of other and unspecified parts of face

      1. C43.30 Malignant melanoma of unspecified part of face

      2. C43.31 Malignant melanoma of nose

      3. C43.39 Malignant melanoma of other parts of face

    5. C43.4 Malignant melanoma of scalp and neck

    6. C43.5 Malignant melanoma of trunk

      1. C43.51 Malignant melanoma of anal skin

        Inclusion term(s):

        • Malignant melanoma of anal margin
        • Malignant melanoma of perianal skin
      2. C43.52 Malignant melanoma of skin of breast

      3. C43.59 Malignant melanoma of other part of trunk

    7. C43.6 Malignant melanoma of upper limb, including shoulder

      1. C43.60 Malignant melanoma of unspecified upper limb, including shoulder

      2. C43.61 Malignant melanoma of right upper limb, including shoulder

      3. C43.62 Malignant melanoma of left upper limb, including shoulder

    8. C43.7 Malignant melanoma of lower limb, including hip

      1. C43.70 Malignant melanoma of unspecified lower limb, including hip

      2. C43.71 Malignant melanoma of right lower limb, including hip

      3. C43.72 Malignant melanoma of left lower limb, including hip

    9. C43.8 Malignant melanoma of overlapping sites of skin

    10. C43.9 Malignant melanoma of skin, unspecified

      Inclusion term(s):

      • Malignant melanoma of unspecified site of skin
      • Melanoma (malignant) NOS
Abbreviations used here:

NEC Not elsewhere classifiable
This abbreviation in the Tabular List represents “other specified”. When a specific code is not available for a condition, the Tabular List includes an NEC entry under a code to identify the code as the “other specified” code.

NOS Not otherwise specified
This abbreviation is the equivalent of unspecified.