Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders
Non-billable header
M51 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- Note: Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- current injury - see injury of spine by body region
- discitis NOS (M46.4-)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- cervical and cervicothoracic disc disorders (M50.-)
- sacral and sacrococcygeal disorders (M53.3)
More specific codes M51
- M51.0Thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders with myelopathyHeader
- M51.1Thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathyHeader
- M51.2Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc displacementHeader
- M51.3Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc degenerationHeader
- M51.4Schmorl's nodesHeader
- M51.8Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disordersHeader
- M51.9Unspecified thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorderBillable
- M51.AOther lumbar and lumbosacral annulus fibrosus disc defectsHeader