CA60.6

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Berylliosis

Description

Chronic beryllium disease also known as berylliosis is an occupational hypersensitivity disorder caused by beryllium exposure at the workplace. It is characterised by non-caseating, non-necrotising granulomata within affected organs, most frequently lung and skin.

Index terms

  • Berylliosis
  • beryllium disease
  • lung fibrosis with berylliosis

Exclusions from above levels

  • CA23 – Asthma
  • 01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  • 05 – Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
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  • 18 – Complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
  • 19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
  • 20 – Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • 22 – Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes

Foundation children elsewhere

  • DB97.1 – Hepatic berylliosis

Sibling codes

  • CA60.0 – Pneumoconiosis due to dust containing silica
  • CA60.1 – Coal worker pneumoconiosis
  • CA60.2 – Pneumoconiosis due to mineral fibres including asbestos
  • CA60.3 – Pneumoconiosis associated with tuberculosis
  • CA60.4 – Aluminosis of lung
  • CA60.5 – Bauxite fibrosis of lung
  • CA60.7 – Graphite fibrosis of lung
  • CA60.8 – Siderosis
  • CA60.9 – Stannosis
  • CA60.Y – Other specified pneumoconiosis
  • CA60.Z – Pneumoconiosis, unspecified

Foundation entity

Berylliosis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/212013370

Allowed postcoordination axes

Part of: CA60: Pneumoconiosis › 12: Diseases of the respiratory system