ICD-11 classes
12 Diseases of the respiratory system
Lung diseases due to external agents
Pneumonitis
CB04.6 — Chronic pneumonitis of infancy
ICD-11 CB04.6 — Chronic pneumonitis of infancy
Chronic pneumonitis of infancy is a rare paediatric form of interstitial lung disease (ILD) sharing clinical and radiologic features with other forms of ILD (cough, tachypnoea, and infiltrative opacities on chest imaging) and harbouring specific histological abnormalities including diffuse thickening of alveolar septa, hyperplasia of type 2 alveolar epithelial cells (AEC), and presence of primitive mesenchymal cells within the alveolar septa.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: