M43.24 Fusion of spine, thoracic region
Instructional Notes:
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M43.24
Description: Fusion of spine, thoracic region
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M43.2
Description: Fusion of spine
Exclude1:
- ankylosing spondylitis (M45.0-)
- congenital fusion of spine (Q76.4)
Exclude2:
- arthrodesis status (Z98.1)
- pseudoarthrosis after fusion or arthrodesis (M96.0)
Inclusion Term:
- Ankylosis of spinal joint
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M43
Description: Other deforming dorsopathies
Exclude1:
- congenital spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis (Q76.2)
- hemivertebra (Q76.3-Q76.4)
- Klippel-Feil syndrome (Q76.1)
- lumbarization and sacralization (Q76.4)
- platyspondylisis (Q76.4)
- spina bifida occulta (Q76.0)
- spinal curvature in osteoporosis (M80.-)
- spinal curvature in Paget's disease of bone [osteitis deformans] (M88.-)
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M40-M43
Description: Deforming dorsopathies (M40-M43)
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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