High Risk Features (Cutaneous Carcinoma of Head and Neck)

Organization	Field Name	ID	Required
KCR	High Risk Histologic Features	34054	yes
SEER	High Risk Features	3858	yes

Note 1 Physician statement of high risk histologic features can be used to code this data item when no other information is available.

Note 2 High risk histologic features include

Note 3 Code the presence or absence of high risk histologic features as documented in the pathology report.

Note 4 Code 5 if more than one high risk histologic feature is present.

Code	Description
0	No high risk histologic features
1	Desmoplasia
2	Poor differentiation (grade 3)
3	Sarcomatoid differentiation
4	Undifferentiated (grade 4)
5	Multiple high risk histologic features
6	Histologic features, NOS (type of high risk histologic feature not specified)
8	Not applicable: Information not collected for this case (If this information is required by your standard setter, use of code 8 may result in an edit error)
9	Not documented in medical record High risk histologic features not assessed or unknown if assessed