M24.50 Contracture, unspecified joint
Instructional Notes:
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M24.50
Description: Contracture, unspecified joint
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M24.5
Description: Contracture of joint
Exclude1:
- contracture of muscle without contracture of joint (M62.4-)
- contracture of tendon (sheath) without contracture of joint (M62.4-)
- Dupuytren's contracture (M72.0)
Exclude2:
- acquired deformities of limbs (M20-M21)
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M24
Description: Other specific joint derangements
Exclude1:
- current injury - see injury of joint by body region
Exclude2:
- ganglion (M67.4)
- snapping knee (M23.8-)
- temporomandibular joint disorders (M26.6-)
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M20-M25
Description: Other joint disorders (M20-M25)
Exclude2:
- joints of the spine (M40-M54)
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M00-M99
Description: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
Exclude2:
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Notes:
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition