259.4 DWARFISM NEC


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 259.4

Short Description: Dwarfism NEC

Long Description: Dwarfism, not elsewhere classified

Code Classification:

  • Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders (240–279)
    • Diseases of other endocrine glands (249-259)
      • 259 Other endocrine disorders
        • 259.4 Dwarfism NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


Synonyms

  • Ateliotic dwarf
  • Ateliotic dwarfism without insulinopenia
  • Congenital malformation syndromes associated with short stature
  • Constitutional short stature
  • Dolichocephalic dwarfism
  • Dwarfism
  • Dwarfism, alopecia, pseudoanodontia, cutis laxa
  • Hypothyroid dwarfism
  • Infantile dwarf
  • Rachitic dwarf
  • Senile dwarfism
  • Thanatophoric dysplasia
  • Tryptophanuria with dwarfism

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 259.4 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Dwarf, dwarfism 259.4
    • with infantilism (hypophyseal) 253.3
    • achondroplastic 756.4
    • Amsterdam 759.89
    • bird-headed 759.89
    • congenital 259.4
    • constitutional 259.4
    • hypophyseal 253.3
    • infantile 259.4
    • Levi type 253.3
    • Lorain-Levi (pituitary) 253.3
    • Lorain type (pituitary) 253.3
    • metatropic 756.4
    • nephrotic-glycosuric, with hypophosphatemic rickets 270.0
    • nutritional 263.2
    • ovarian 758.6
    • pancreatic 577.8
    • pituitary 253.3
    • polydystrophic 277.5
    • primordial 253.3
    • psychosocial 259.4
    • renal 588.0
      • with hypertension - see Hypertension, kidney
    • Russell's (uterine dwarfism and craniofacial dysostosis) 759.89
  • Nanism, nanosomia (see also Dwarfism) 259.4
    • hypophyseal 253.3
    • pituitary 253.3
    • renis, renalis 588.0

Crosswalk Information

The code 259.4 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
259.4 Right Arrow E34.3 Short stature due to endocrine disorder
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
259.0 Delay in sexual development and puberty, not elsewhere classified
259.1 Precocious sexual development and puberty, not elsewhere classified
259.2 Carcinoid syndrome
259.3 Ectopic hormone secretion, not elsewhere classified
259.50 Androgen insensitivity, unspecified
259.51 Androgen insensitivity syndrome
259.52 Partial androgen insensitivity
259.8 Other specified endocrine disorders
259.9 Unspecified endocrine disorder


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