ICD-11 classes
02 Neoplasms
Malignant neoplasms, except primary neoplasms of lymphoid,...
Malignant neoplasms, stated or presumed to be primary, of...
Malignant neoplasms of digestive organs
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: