M79.A9 Nontraumatic compartment syndrome of other sites
Instructional Notes:
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M79.A9
Description: Nontraumatic compartment syndrome of other sites
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M79.A
Description: Nontraumatic compartment syndrome
Exclude1:- compartment syndrome NOS (T79.A-)
- fibromyalgia (M79.7)
- nontraumatic ischemic infarction of muscle (M62.2-)
- traumatic compartment syndrome (T79.A-)
- , if applicable, associated postprocedural complication
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M79
Description: Other and unspecified soft tissue disorders, not elsewhere classified
Exclude1:- psychogenic rheumatism (F45.8)
- soft tissue pain, psychogenic (F45.41)
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M70-M79
Description: Other soft tissue disorders (M70-M79)
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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)
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition