Muscle, noninfectious inflammation NOS (inflammatory myositis)
| ICD10 Diagnosis | |
| Dx: | Muscle, noninfectious inflammation NOS (inflammatory myositis) |
| ICD10 code: | M60.9 |
| Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | none assigned |
| Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
| APACHE Como Component: | none |
| APACHE Acute Component: | none |
| Start Date: | |
| Stop Date: | |
| Data Dependencies(Reports/Indicators/Data Elements): | No results |
| External ICD10 Documentation | |
This diagnosis is a part of ICD10 collection.
Additional Info
- This code is for NON-INFECTIOUS inflammation of muscles.
- This code includes primarily:
- Intersitital myositis
- Foreign body granuloma of soft tissue
- Noninfectious myositis, not otherwise specified and not included in the list of alternatives below
- For codes of entities that often include noninfectious myositis (e.g. Dermatomyositis/polymyositis), you can optionally also combine this code with the entity.
Alternative Codes
- Muscle, infection (pyomyositis, infective myositis)
- Muscle, ischemic infarction
- Muscle, rupture, nontraumatic
- Muscle, wasting/atrophy NOS
- Muscle, strain
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Dermatomyositis/polymyositis or other autoimmune disease overlap syndromes that involve muscle (e.g. Systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE, lupus)
- Any of the numerous, body part-specific muscle trauma codes
- Muscle, disorder NOS
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
- Dermatomyositis/polymyositis
- Muscle, infection (pyomyositis, infective myositis)
- Collagen-vascular disease, NOS
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