CS Site-Specific Factor 8

Perineural Invasion

Notes

**Note**: Code the presence or absence of perineural invasion as documented in the pathology report. Assign code 000 if histologic examination of primary site was performed, the pathology report is available for review, and perineural invasion is not mentioned.

Default

999

NAACCR Item

NAACCR #2862

Metadata

CCCR_IVA_COLLECT_IF_AVAILABLE_IN_PATH_REPORT
COC_CLINICALLY_SIGNIFICANT
SEER_CLINICALLY_SIGNIFICANT
Code Description
000 None; no perineural invasion present
010 Perineural invasion present
988 Not applicable: Information not collected for this case
(If this information is required by your standard setter, use of code 988 may result in an edit error.)
998 No histologic examination of primary site
999 Unknown
Not documented in patient record