Instruction Source: J35.3
Hypertrophy of tonsils with hypertrophy of adenoids
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- hypertrophy of tonsils and adenoids with tonsillitis and adenoiditis (J35.03)
Instruction Source: J35
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids
Instruction Source: J30-J39
Other diseases of upper respiratory tract (J30-J39)
Instruction Source: J00-J99
Diseases of the respiratory system
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Clinical Notes
- When a respiratory condition is described as occurring in more than one site and is not specifically indexed, it should be classified to the lower anatomic site (e.g. tracheobronchitis to bronchitis in J40).