M86.252 Subacute osteomyelitis, left femur
Instructional Notes:
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M86.252
Description: Subacute osteomyelitis, left femur
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M86.25
Description: Subacute osteomyelitis, femur
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M86.2
Description: Subacute osteomyelitis
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M86
Description: Osteomyelitis
Exclude1:
- osteomyelitis due to:
- echinococcus (B67.2)
- gonococcus (A54.43)
- salmonella (A02.24)
Exclude2:
- ostemyelitis of:
- orbit (H05.0-)
- petrous bone (H70.2-)
- vertebra (M46.2-)
Use Additional Code:
- code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent
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M86-M90
Description: Other osteopathies (M86-M90)
Exclude1:
- postprocedural osteopathies (M96.-)
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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