Spondylopathies in diseases classified elsewhere - M49
This notation helps users understand the scope of a code M49 category and provides additional information about the conditions or terms that fall under that category.
Category Includes:
- curvature of spine in diseases classified elsewhere
- deformity of spine in diseases classified elsewhere
- kyphosis in diseases classified elsewhere
- scoliosis in diseases classified elsewhere
- spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere
Excludes1: It indicates that the conditions described by two codes cannot occur together in the same patient. These codes are mutually exclusive.
Type 1 Excludes:
- curvature of spine in tuberculosis [Pott's] (A18.01)
- enteropathic arthropathies (M07.-)
- gonococcal spondylitis (A54.41)
- neuropathic [tabes dorsalis] spondylitis (A52.11)
- neuropathic spondylopathy in syringomyelia (G95.0)
- neuropathic spondylopathy in tabes dorsalis (A52.11)
- nonsyphilitic neuropathic spondylopathy NEC (G98.0)
- spondylitis in syphilis (acquired) (A52.77)
- tuberculous spondylitis (A18.01)
- typhoid fever spondylitis (A01.05)
Code First: This note advises that another code should be sequenced as the principal diagnosis before the code with this note.
Category codeFirst:
- underlying disease, such as:
- brucellosis (A23.-)
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (G60.0)
- enterobacterial infections (A01-A04)
- osteitis fibrosa cystica (E21.0)
These ranges represents subcategories of Spondylopathies in diseases classified elsewhere. The "M49" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad category.
Codes:
- M49.8 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere
- M49.80 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, site unspecified
- M49.81 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M49.82 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, cervical region
- M49.83 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, cervicothoracic region
- M49.84 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, thoracic region
- M49.85 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, thoracolumbar region
- M49.86 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, lumbar region
- M49.87 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, lumbosacral region
- M49.88 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M49.89 - Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, multiple sites in spine