M17.3

Unilateral post-traumatic osteoarthritis of knee

Non-billable header

M17.3 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Post-traumatic osteoarthritis of knee NOS

Includes (from M17)

  • Note: Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-) (from M17)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from M17)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from M17)
  • compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-) (from M17)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from M17)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from M17)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from M17)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from M17)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49) (from M17)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from M17)
  • osteoarthritis of spine (M47.-) (from M17)

Also known as

  • Post-traumatic osteoarthritis of knee NOS
  • Osteoarthritis, knee, unilateral, post-traumatic
  • Osteoarthritis, post-traumatic NEC, knee

Parent code

  • M17Osteoarthritis of kneeHeader

More specific codes M17.3

  • M17.30Unilateral post-traumatic osteoarthritis, unspecified kneeBillable
  • M17.31Unilateral post-traumatic osteoarthritis, right kneeBillable
  • M17.32Unilateral post-traumatic osteoarthritis, left kneeBillable

Related codes

  • M17.0Bilateral primary osteoarthritis of kneeBillable
  • M17.1Unilateral primary osteoarthritis of kneeHeader
  • M17.2Bilateral post-traumatic osteoarthritis of kneeBillable
  • M17.4Other bilateral secondary osteoarthritis of kneeBillable
  • M17.5Other unilateral secondary osteoarthritis of kneeBillable
  • M17.9Osteoarthritis of knee, unspecifiedBillable

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