Diagnosis Code: 737.9

Short Description: Curvature of spine NOS

Long Description: Unspecified curvature of spine

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (710–739)
  • Osteopathies, chondropathies, and acquired musculoskeletal deformities (730-739)
    • 737 Curvature of spine
      • 737.9 Curvature of spine NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Acquired curvature of spine
• Acquired hunchback
• Camptocormia
• Curvature of spine due to osteomalacia

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 737.9 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Angulation
  • spine (see also Curvature, spine) 737.9

• Contraction, contracture, contracted
  • spine (see also Curvature, spine) 737.9

• Curvature
  • spine (acquired) (angular) (idiopathic) (incorrect) (postural) 737.9
    • congenital 754.2
    • due to or associated with
      • Charc�t-Marie-Tooth disease 356.1 [737.40]
      • mucopolysaccharidosis 277.5 [737.40]
      • neurofibromatosis 237.71 [737.40]
      • osteitis
        • deformans 731.0 [737.40]
        • fibrosa cystica 252.01 [737.40]
      • osteoporosis (see also Osteoporosis) 733.00 [737.40]
      • poliomyelitis (see also Poliomyelitis) 138 [737.40]
      • tuberculosis (Pott's curvature) (see also Tuberculosis) 015.0 [737.43]
    • kyphoscoliotic (see also Kyphoscoliosis) 737.30
    • kyphotic (see also Kyphosis) 737.10
    • late effect of rickets 268.1 [737.40]
    • Pott's 015.0 [737.40]
    • scoliotic (see also Scoliosis) 737.30
    • specified NEC 737.8
    • tuberculous 015.0 [737.40]

• Defect, defective 759.9
  • postural, spine 737.9

• Humpback (acquired) 737.9
  • congenital 756.19

• Hunchback (acquired) 737.9
  • congenital 756.19

• Short, shortening, shortness
  • back 737.9

• Tilting vertebra 737.9

Crosswalk Information

The code 737.9 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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