Disorder of pleura and pleural cavity	Empyema	Inflammation of specific body organs	Inflammatory disorder of the respiratory system	Respiratory tract infection
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Empyema of pleura (disorder)
	Empyema of pleura
	Purulent pleurisy Empyema thoracis Pyothorax Suppurative pleurisy
	pleura-empyeem
	pyothorax

Id	58554001
Status	Defined

Associated morphology	Empyema
Finding site	Pleural cavity structure
Pathological process	Infectious process

DHD Diagnosis thesaurus reference set

ICD-10 complex map reference set

Target	J86.9
Rule	TRUE
Advice	ALWAYS J86.9
Correlation	SNOMED CT source code to target map code correlation not specified

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Empyema with fistula4

Fibrinopurulent pleurisy

Loculated empyema

Pleural empyema with no fistula

Pyopneumothorax1

Seropurulent pleurisy

Tuberculous empyema