Excludes2

  • disorders of kidney and ureter with urolithiasis (N20-N23)
  1. N26 Unspecified contracted kidney

    Excludes1

    • contracted kidney due to hypertension (I12.-)
    • diffuse sclerosing glomerulonephritis (N05.8.-)
    • hypertensive nephrosclerosis (arteriolar) (arteriosclerotic) (I12.-)
    • small kidney of unknown cause (N27.-)
    1. N26.1 Atrophy of kidney (terminal)

    2. N26.2 Page kidney

    3. N26.9 Renal sclerosis, unspecified

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.