ICD-10-CM code "C43": Malignant melanoma of skin (2024)

Excludes

1. Neoplasms (C00-D49)
2. Melanoma and other malignant neoplasms of skin (C43-C44)
3. Malignant melanoma of skin (C43)

   Type 1melanoma in situ (D03.-)

   Type 2malignant melanoma of skin of genital organs (C51-C52, C60.-, C63.-)

   Type 2Merkel cell carcinoma (C4A.-)

   Type 2sites other than skin-code to malignant neoplasm of the site

Includes

1. Neoplasms (C00-D49)
2. Melanoma and other malignant neoplasms of skin (C43-C44)
3. Malignant melanoma of skin (C43)

Subcategories

• Malignant melanoma of lip (C43.0)
• Malignant melanoma of eyelid, including canthus (C43.1)
• Malignant melanoma of ear and external auricular canal (C43.2)
• Malignant melanoma of other and unspecified parts of face (C43.3)
• Malignant melanoma of scalp and neck (C43.4)
• Malignant melanoma of trunk (C43.5)
• Malignant melanoma of upper limb, including shoulder (C43.6)
• Malignant melanoma of lower limb, including hip (C43.7)
• Malignant melanoma of overlapping sites of skin (C43.8)
• Malignant melanoma of skin, unspecified (C43.9)