CH_CRL (v0.2.0)

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NKRS - ICD-O-3 Laterality

Laterality describes the side of a paired organ or side of the body on which the reportable cancer originated. Laterality (Variable number: 3.8) in 'NATIONAL CANCER DATA DICTIONARY, V 1.1, Part A, BASIC VARIABLES for Adults, Adolescents, and Children' see Nationale Krebsregistrierungsstelle > Partner im Gesundheitswesen > Information, Grundlagen und Datenstruktur zum KRG.

This code system http://fhir.ch/ig/ch-crl/CodeSystem/nkrs-icdo3laterality defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
1 Right
2 Left
3 Unilateral, NOSUnilateral, but unknown whether right or left.
4 BilateralOrigin of primary tumour is on both sides of a paired organ (when tumours of the same morphology are diagnosed simultaneously in both sides of a paired organ). Bilateral cancers are very rare, e.g. bilateral retinoblastoma, bilateral Wilms tumour of the kidney, or both ovaries involved simultaneously.