Diagnosis Code: 720.9

Short Description: Inflam spondylopathy NOS

Long Description: Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (710–739)
  • Dorsopathies (720-724)
    • 720 Ankylosing spondylitis and other inflammatory spondylopathies
      • 720.9 Inflam spondylopathy NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 720.9 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Arthritis, arthritic (acute) (chronic) (subacute) 716.9
  • atrophic 714.0
    • spine 720.9
  • infectious or infective (acute) (chronic) (subacute) NEC 711.9
    • spine 720.9
  • primary progressive 714.0
    • spine 720.9
  • rheumatic 714.0
    • spine 720.9
  • spine 721.90
    • atrophic 720.9
    • infectious or infective NEC 720.9
    • pyogenic 720.9

• Atrophy, atrophic
  • arthritis 714.0
    • spine 720.9

• Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • Gibney's (perispondylitis) 720.9

• Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation)
  • spine (see also Spondylitis) 720.9

• Spondylitis 720.9
  • ankylopoietica 720.0
  • ankylosing (chronic) 720.0
  • atrophic 720.9
    • ligamentous 720.9
  • chronic (traumatic) (see also Spondylosis) 721.90
  • deformans (chronic) (see also Spondylosis) 721.90
  • gonococcal 098.53
  • gouty 274.00
  • hypertrophic (see also Spondylosis) 721.90
  • infectious NEC 720.9
  • juvenile (adolescent) 720.0
  • Kummell's 721.7
  • Marie-Str�mpell (ankylosing) 720.0
  • muscularis 720.9
  • ossificans ligamentosa 721.6
  • osteoarthritica (see also Spondylosis) 721.90
  • posttraumatic 721.7
  • proliferative 720.0
  • rheumatoid 720.0
  • rhizomelica 720.0
  • sacroiliac NEC 720.2
  • senescent (see also Spondylosis) 721.90
  • senile (see also Spondylosis) 721.90
  • static (see also Spondylosis) 721.90
  • traumatic (chronic) (see also Spondylosis) 721.90
  • tuberculous (see also Tuberculosis) 015.0 [720.81]
  • typhosa 002.0 [720.81]

• Spondylopathy
  • inflammatory 720.9
    • specified type NEC 720.89

• Spondylosis 721.90
  • inflammatory 720.9

• "Whistling face" syndrome (craniocarpotarsal dystrophy) 759.89

Crosswalk Information

The code 720.9 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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