ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Mycobacterial diseases
Tuberculosis
1B12 — Tuberculosis of other systems and organs
1B12.2 — Tuberculosis of ear
ICD-11 1B12.2 — Tuberculosis of ear
This is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This diagnosis is of the ear.
It includes 1 item.
- Tuberculous otitis media
It excludes 2 items.
- tuberculosis of skin of external ear (1B12.8)
- Tuberculous mastoiditis (1B12.40)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.