Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, forearm
Non-billable header
M62.53 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from M62)
- 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.
- neuralgic amyotrophy (G54.5) (from M62.5)
- progressive muscular atrophy (G12.21) (from M62.5)
- sarcopenia (M62.84) (from M62.5)
- dermatopolymyositis (M33.-) (from M62)
- myopathy in amyloidosis (E85.-) (from M62)
- myopathy in polyarteritis nodosa (M30.0) (from M62)
- myopathy in rheumatoid arthritis (M05.32) (from M62)
- myopathy in scleroderma (M34.-) (from M62)
- myopathy in Sjögren's syndrome (M35.03) (from M62)
- myopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.-) (from M62)
- alcoholic myopathy (G72.1) (from M62)
- cramp and spasm (R25.2) (from M62)
- drug-induced myopathy (G72.0) (from M62)
- myalgia (M79.1-) (from M62)
- stiff-man syndrome (G25.82) (from M62)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- pelvic muscle wasting (N81.84) (from M62.5)
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-) (from M62)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from M62)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from M62)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-) (from M62)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from M62)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from M62)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from M62)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from M62)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from M62)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from M62)
- muscular dystrophies and myopathies (G71-G72) (from M62)
- nontraumatic hematoma of muscle (M79.81) (from M62)
Also known as
- Atrophy, atrophic, muscle, muscular, forearm
Parent code
- M62.5Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
More specific codes M62.53
Related codes
- M62.50Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, unspecified siteBillable
- M62.51Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, shoulderHeader
- M62.52Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, upper armHeader
- M62.54Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, handHeader
- M62.55Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, thighHeader
- M62.56Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, lower legHeader
- M62.57Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, ankle and footHeader
- M62.58Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, other siteBillable
- M62.59Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, multiple sitesBillable
- M62.5AMuscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, backHeader