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. 2018 Mar 28;15(1):66–76. doi: 10.14245/ns.1836038.019

Table 1.

Definition of spine disease

Codea Inclusion Codea Exclusion
M40 Kyphosis and lordosis Q76.2-4 Congenital kyphosis and lordosis
M41 Scoliosis
M42 Spinal osteochondrosis M96. Postprocedural kyphosis and lordosis
M43 Other deforming dorsopathies Q76.3-4 Hemivertebra
 - Spondylolisthesis Q76.1 Klippel-Feil syndrome
 - Recurrent atlantoaxial subluxation
M45 Ankylosing spondylitis Q76.4 Lumbarization and sacralization
M46 Other inflammatory spondylopathies
M47 Spondylosis Q76.4 Platyspondylisis
 - Degeneration of facet joints M80-1 Spinal curvature in osteoporosis
M48 Other spondylopathies M88 Paget disease of bone
 - Spinal stenosis
 - Ankylosing hyperostosis
M49 Spondylopathies in disease classified elsewhere M02.3 Arthropathy in Reiter disease
 - Tuberculosis
 - Brucella
 - Parasitic disease
M50 Cervical disc disorders M35.2 Behcet disease
M51 Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders
M53 Other dorsopathy, NEC M08.1 Juvenile (ankylosing) spondylitis
 - Cervicobrachial syndrome
 - Spinal instabilities
M54 Dorsalgia G54.0 Thoracic outlet syndrome
 - Coccygodynia
 - Radiculopathy
 - Sciatica

NEC, not elsewhere classified.

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The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes (ICD-10), 2016. World Health Organization. [11]