M51.379 Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region without mention of lumbar back pain or lower extremity pain
Instructional Notes:
M51.379 Description: Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region without mention of lumbar back pain or lower extremity pain Inclusion Term:
Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region without mention of lumbar back pain or leg pain
Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region, NOS
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M51.37 Description: Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region ↓
M51.3 Description: Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc degeneration ↓
M51 Description: Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders Exclude2:
cervical and cervicothoracic disc disorders (M50.-)
sacral and sacrococcygeal disorders (M53.3)
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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