Diagnosis Code

R62.52 SHORT STATURE (CHILD)


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: R62.52

Short Description: Short stature (child)

Long Description: Short stature (child)

The code R62.52 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
    • General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
      • Lack of expected normal physiol dev in childhood and adults (R62)
        • R62.52 Short stature (child)

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Abnormal blue sclerae
  • Advanced bone age
  • Below expected growth rate
  • Bilateral congenital dislocation of hip
  • Blue nevus of skin
  • Bone age finding
  • Bone age finding
  • Brachydactyly of hand
  • Brachymesophalangia
  • Brachymetatarsia
  • Brachymetatarsia of fourth metatarsal
  • Cognitive impairment, coarse facies, heart defects, obesity, pulmonary involvement, short stature, skeletal dysplasia syndrome
  • Congenital anomaly of sclera
  • Congenital atresia of external auditory canal
  • Congenital atrophy of optic nerve
  • Congenital dislocation of left hip
  • Congenital dislocation of right hip
  • Congenital hypotrichia
  • Congenital livedo reticularis
  • Craniofacial dysplasia, short stature, ectodermal anomalies, intellectual disability syndrome
  • Delayed bone age
  • Disproportionate short stature
  • Ear, patella, short stature syndrome
  • Facial dysmorphism, immunodeficiency, livedo, short stature syndrome
  • Familial short stature
  • Genetic anomaly of leukocyte
  • Growth retardation
  • Has not grown in height
  • Height below average
  • Hip pathological dislocation
  • Hypertelorism
  • Idiopathic short stature
  • Infantile and/or juvenile cataract
  • Intellectual disability, cardiac anomalies, short stature, joint laxity syndrome
  • Intellectual disability, muscle weakness, short stature, facial dysmorphism syndrome
  • Intellectual disability, myopathy, short stature, endocrine defect syndrome
  • Intellectual disability, short stature, hypertelorism syndrome
  • Juvenile cataract
  • Livedo reticularis
  • Microcephalic cortical malformations, short stature due to RTTN deficiency
  • Microcephaly, short stature, intellectual disability, facial dysmorphism syndrome
  • Mongolian spot
  • Multiple malformation syndrome, moderate short stature, facial
  • Oral-facial-digital syndrome with short stature and brachymesophalangia
  • Pathological dislocation of left hip
  • Pelger-Huët anomaly
  • Pelger-Huët cell
  • Pentose disorder
  • Photosensitivity with ichthyosis, brittle hair, impaired intelligence, decreased fertility and short stature syndrome
  • Progressive spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, short stature, short fourth metatarsals, intellectual disability syndrome
  • Proportionate short stature
  • Psychosocial short stature
  • Rachitic dwarf
  • Retardation of physical development
  • Retinitis pigmentosa, hearing loss, premature aging, short stature, facial dysmorphism syndrome
  • Retinitis pigmentosa, juvenile cataract, short stature, intellectual disability syndrome
  • Severe growth deficiency, strabismus, extensive dermal melanocytosis, intellectual disability syndrome
  • Severe intellectual disability, short stature, behavioral abnormalities, facial dysmorphism syndrome
  • Severe myopia, generalized joint laxity, short stature syndrome
  • Short stature associated with bone marrow transplant
  • Short stature disorder
  • Short stature disorder due to osteosclerosis
  • Short stature due to radiation therapy
  • Short stature for age
  • Short stature of childhood
  • Short stature with valvular heart disease and characteristic facies syndrome
  • Short stature, advanced bone age, early-onset osteoarthritis syndrome
  • Short stature, auditory canal atresia, mandibular hypoplasia, skeletal anomalies syndrome
  • Short stature, brachydactyly, obesity, global developmental delay syndrome
  • Short stature, developmental delay, congenital heart defect syndrome
  • Short stature, onychodysplasia, facial dysmorphism, hypotrichosis syndrome
  • Short stature, optic nerve atrophy, Pelger-Huët anomaly syndrome
  • Speech delay
  • Steel syndrome
  • Trichothiodystrophy
  • Wellesley Carman French syndrome
  • X-linked female restricted facial dysmorphism, short stature, choanal atresia, intellectual disability
  • X-linked intellectual disability, short stature, overweight syndrome

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code R62.52 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)
  • Miscellaneous Disorders Of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids And Electrolytes With Mcc (640)
  • Miscellaneous Disorders Of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids And Electrolytes Without Mcc (641)

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code R62.52 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Inclusion Terms:
    • Lack of growth
    • Physical retardation
    • Short stature NOS
  • Type 1 Excludes Notes:
    • short stature due to endocrine disorder (@E34.3*-)

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
R62.52 Right Arrow 783.43 Short stature

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 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-10 Code ICD-10 Description
R62 Lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood and adults
R62.0 Delayed milestone in childhood
R62.5 Other and unspecified lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood
R62.50 Unspecified lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood
R62.51 Failure to thrive (child)
R62.59 Other lack of expected normal physiological development in childhood
R62.7 Adult failure to thrive


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