ICD-11 classes
12 Diseases of the respiratory system
Symptoms, signs or clinical findings of the respiratory...
Symptoms or signs involving the respiratory system
MD10 — Abnormal sputum

ICD-11 MD10 — Abnormal sputum

This category includes the abnormalities of quantity, colour and odor in sputum which may suggest a some etiology. Patients with chronic bronchitis typically expectorate small quantities of mucoid yellow material. A foul or fetid odor should suggest infection from anaerobic organisms, usually in cases of lung abscess. Occasionally, greatly excessive amounts of sputum or «bronchorrhoea» is associated with bronchioloalveolar carcinoma.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.

The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:

• Symptoms or signs involving the respiratory system #24419