ICD-10-CM Code for Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracolumbar region, initial encounter for fracture M48.55XA

ICD-10 code M48.55XA for Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracolumbar region, initial encounter for fracture is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Dorsopathies .

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Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracolumbar region, initial encounter for fracture

M48.5

Excludes1: current injury - see Injury of spine, by body region
fatigue fracture of vertebra (M48.4)
pathological fracture of vertebra due to neoplasm (M84.58)
pathological fracture of vertebra due to other diagnosis (M84.68)
pathological fracture of vertebra due to osteoporosis (M80.-)
pathological fracture NOS (M84.4-)
stress fracture of vertebra (M48.4-)
traumatic fracture of vertebra (S12.-, S22.-, S32.-)

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