Diagnosis Code: 341.8

Short Description: Cns demyelination NEC

Long Description: Other demyelinating diseases of central nervous system

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the nervous system (320–359)
  • Other disorders of the central nervous system (340-349)
    • 341 Other demyelinating diseases of central nervous system
      • 341.8 Cns demyelination NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Central pontine myelinolysis
• Hypomyelination and congenital cataract
• Marchiafava-Bignami disease
• Monofocal clinically isolated syndrome
• Multifocal clinically isolated syndrome
• Neuromyelitis
• Vanishing white matter disease

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 341.8 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Demyelination, demyelinization
  • central nervous system 341.9
    • specified NEC 341.8
  • corpus callosum (central) 341.8

• Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • demyelinating, demyelinizating (brain stem) (central nervous system) 341.9
    • specified NEC 341.8
  • Marchiafava (-Bignami) 341.8
  • spine, spinal 733.90
    • demyelinating NEC 341.8

• Encephalopathy (acute) 348.30
  • demyelinating (callosal) 341.8
  • infantile cystic necrotizing (congenital) 341.8

• Marchiafava (-Bignami) disease or syndrome 341.8

• Myelinosis, central pontine 341.8

• Neuromyelitis 341.8
  • ascending 357.0
  • optica 341.0

• Syndrome - see also Disease
  • Marchiafava-Bignami 341.8

Crosswalk Information

The code 341.8 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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