M62.179 - Other rupture of muscle (nontraumatic), unspecified ankle and foot
ICD-10-CM Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue · M60-M63 Disorders of muscles (M60-M63) · Subcategory of M62.17 · FY2027
Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes
Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.
- traumatic rupture of muscle - see strain of muscle by body region
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- rupture of tendon (M66.-)
Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.
- alcoholic myopathy (G72.1)
- cramp and spasm (R25.2)
- drug-induced myopathy (G72.0)
- myalgia (M79.1-)
- stiff-man syndrome (G25.82)
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- nontraumatic hematoma of muscle (M79.81)
Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.
- dermatopolymyositis (M33.-)
- myopathy in amyloidosis (E85.-)
- myopathy in polyarteritis nodosa (M30.0)
- myopathy in rheumatoid arthritis (M05.32)
- myopathy in scleroderma (M34.-)
- myopathy in Sjögren's syndrome (M35.03)
- myopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.-)
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- muscular dystrophies and myopathies (G71-G72)
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- 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)
Instructional notes from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
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