M50.03 Cervical disc disorder with myelopathy, cervicothoracic region
Instructional Notes:
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M50.03
Description: Cervical disc disorder with myelopathy, cervicothoracic region
Inclusion Term:
- C7-T1 disc disorder with myelopathy
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M50.0
Description: Cervical disc disorder with myelopathy
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M50
Description: Cervical disc disorders
Include:
- cervicothoracic disc disorders with cervicalgia
- cervicothoracic disc disorders
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M50-M54
Description: Other dorsopathies (M50-M54)
Exclude1:
- current injury - see injury of spine by body region
- discitis NOS (M46.4-)
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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