Wiki diagnosis code

[forddani19]

I am new to coding path reports, I can understand most of them but I got this one and was a little confused-
Diagnosis:
Lymph node, right neck, biopsy:
-T-cell/histiocyte rich diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, germinal center phenotype.
Is this malignant??

 

[Pam Warren]

http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/11/4/384.full

Check out this article. According to it, I would say yes.

 

[mjb5019]

how to code pathology

If you go to the neoplasm chapter guidelines in the front of your icd 9 manual it gives you specific instructions on how to look up the code when you are given the histological term.