ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Endocrine diseases
Neoplasms of the endocrine system
Malignant neoplasms of endocrine glands
2D10 — Malignant neoplasms of thyroid gland
2D10.3 — Undifferentiated carcinoma of thyroid gland
ICD-11 2D10.3 — Undifferentiated carcinoma of thyroid gland
A primary carcinoma of the thyroid gland composed of undifferentiated cells. The malignant cells demonstrate evidence of epithelial differentiation, either by immunohistochemistry or electron microscopic studies. Microscopically, in the majority of cases there is a mixture of spindle, epithelioid, and giant cells. The vast majority of the patients present with a rapidly enlarging neck mass. The clinical course is invariably aggressive.
It includes 1 item.
- anaplastic carcinoma of thyroid gland
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: