Instruction Source: M24.272
Disorder of ligament, left ankle
Instruction Source: M24.27
Disorder of ligament, ankle and foot
Instruction Source: M24.2
Disorder of ligament
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- familial ligamentous laxity (M35.7)
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- internal derangement of knee (M23.5-M23.8X9)
Instruction Source: M24
Other specific joint derangements
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- current injury - see injury of joint by body region
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- ganglion (M67.4)
- snapping knee (M23.8-)
- temporomandibular joint disorders (M26.6-)
Instruction Source: M20-M25
Other joint disorders (M20-M25)
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- joints of the spine (M40-M54)
Instruction Source: M00-M99
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- 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)
Clinical Notes
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition