ICD-11 classes
08 Diseases of the nervous system
Disorders with neurocognitive impairment as a major feature
8A22 — Lewy body disease
ICD-11 8A22 — Lewy body disease
Lewy body disease is a neurodegenerative disorder and the second most common form of dementia in the elderly after Alzheimer disease. Lewy bodies are histologically defined as intracytoplasmic eosinophilic neuronal inclusions in the cortex or brainstem.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Atypical parkinsonism #6609