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86 year old female with cachexia and osteoporosis. she is seen in the ER for back pain and upon review of the X-ray is found to have pathological fractures if T2-T4 and advanced osteoporosis
A 793.89 733.01 799.4
B 733.02 799.4 733.10
C 805.2 268.2
D 799.4 733.00 733.13

I want to choose D because the 733.13 and 733.00 and 799.4 is the Cachexia if this sis not correct what am I missing
 
I started with C since the other answers looked to be general signs and symptoms at a glance. However when looking up the first code it had excludes note that pointed to 733.1X for pathologic fracture which made me cross that off.

733.13 is pathologic fx of vertebrae which is only in D. I didn't look up any of the other codes as that was the only answer with that code
 
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