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783.43 SHORT STATURE


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 783.43

Short Description: Short stature

Long Description: Short stature

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions (780–799)
    • Symptoms (780-789)
      • 783 Symptoms concerning nutrition, metabolism, and development
        • 783.43 Short stature

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


Synonyms

  • Brittle hair-impaired intellect-decreased fertility-short stature syndrome
  • Decrease in height
  • Delayed growth and development
  • Familial short stature
  • Growth retardation
  • Lipodystrophy, partial, with Rieger anomaly, short stature, and insulinopenic diabetes mellitus
  • On examination - short stature
  • Short stature associated with bone marrow transplant
  • Short stature disorder
  • Short stature due to radiation therapy

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 783.43 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Constitutional - see also condition
    • short stature in childhood 783.43
  • Deficiency, deficient
    • short stature homeobox gene (SHOX)
      • with
        • short stature (idiopathic) 783.43
  • Failure, failed
    • growth in childhood 783.43
  • Lack of
    • growth in childhood 783.43
  • Retardation
    • growth (physical) in childhood 783.43
      • due to malnutrition 263.2
      • fetal (intrauterine) 764.9
        • affecting management of pregnancy 656.5
    • physical 783.43
      • child 783.43
      • due to malnutrition 263.2
      • fetus (intrauterine) 764.9
        • affecting management of pregnancy 656.5
  • Short, shortening, shortness
    • stature, constitutional (hereditary) (idiopathic) 783.43

Crosswalk Information

The code 783.43 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
783.43 Right Arrow R62.52 Short stature (child)
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
783.0 Anorexia
783.1 Abnormal weight gain
783.21 Loss of weight
783.22 Underweight
783.3 Feeding difficulties and mismanagement
783.40 Lack of normal physiological development, unspecified
783.41 Failure to thrive
783.42 Delayed milestones
783.5 Polydipsia
783.6 Polyphagia
783.7 Adult failure to thrive
783.9 Other symptoms concerning nutrition, metabolism, and development

This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014

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