G71.01
Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 11 never code together
G71code
G00-G99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 3
G71.01code
Inclusion terms
- Autosomal recessive, childhood type, muscular dystrophy resembling Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy
- Benign [Becker] muscular dystrophy
- Severe [Duchenne] muscular dystrophy
Index entries leading here 7
- Dystrophy, dystrophia
- Becker's
- dystrophy G71.01
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Duchenne's
- Duchenne-Griesinger disease G71.01
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) G83.9
- Duchenne's
- due to or associated with
- muscular dystrophy G71.01
- due to or associated with
- Duchenne's
- Gower's
- muscular dystrophy G71.01
Alongside this code 4 same parent — G71.0
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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