ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Diseases of the stomach or the duodenum
Diseases of stomach
Neoplasms of the stomach
2B71 — Malignant neoplasms of oesophagogastric junction
ICD-11 2B71 — Malignant neoplasms of oesophagogastric junction
Malignant neoplasms that arise from the cells of the oesophagogastric junction (OGJ), which is defined as the point at which the oesophagus ends and the stomach begins. This mainly defines adenocarcinomas that straddle the junction of the oesophagus and stomach. This definition includes many tumours formally called cancers of the gastric cardia.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 1 item.
- Malignant mesenchymal neoplasms (2B50-2B5Z)
Diagnosis with code 2B71 contains 3 clarifying diagnoses:
- 2B71.0 — Adenocarcinoma of oesophagogastric junction
- 2B71.Y — Other specified malignant neoplasm of oesophagogastric junction
- 2B71.Z — Malignant neoplasms of oesophagogastric junction, unspecified
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: