R82

Synonym

• Pleurisy/pleural effusion

Inclusions

• pleural inflammatory exudate
• pleuritis

Exclusions

• tuberculosis A70
• pneumonia R81

Criteria

• clinical evidence of pleural exudate
• or pleuritic pain accompanied by pleural friction rub
• or investigative evidence of inflammatory pleural exudate

Consider

• pleuritic pain R01

Note

• malignant effusion to be coded to origin of malignancy