Instruction Source: M84.452A
Pathological fracture, left femur, init encntr for fracture
Instruction Source: M84.452
Pathological fracture, left femur
Instruction Source: M84.45
Pathological fracture, femur and pelvis
Instruction Source: M84.4
Pathological fracture, not elsewhere classified
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- collapsed vertebra NEC (M48.5)
- pathological fracture in neoplastic disease (M84.5-)
- pathological fracture in osteoporosis (M80.-)
- pathological fracture in other disease (M84.6-)
- stress fracture (M84.3-)
- traumatic fracture (S12.-, S22.-, S32.-, S42.-, S52.-, S62.-, S72.-, S82.-, S92.-)
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- personal history of (healed) pathological fracture (Z87.311)
Instruction Source: M84
Disorder of continuity of bone
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- traumatic fracture of bone-see fracture, by site
Instruction Source: M80-M85
Disorders of bone density and structure (M80-M85)
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