M54.03
Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, cervicothoracic region
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 14 never code together
M54.0code
M00-M99chapter
Excludes2
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)L40.5-
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)T79.A-
- 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
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 1
M00-M99chapter
Notes
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Index entries leading here 1
Alongside this code 9 same parent — M54.0
M54.00 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, site unsp M54.01 Panniculitis aff regions of neck/bk, occipt-atlan-ax region M54.02 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck/bk, cervical region M54.04 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck/bk, thoracic region M54.05 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck/bk, thoracolum region M54.06 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck/bk, lumbar region M54.07 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck/bk, lumbosacr region M54.08 Panniculitis aff regions of neck/bk, sacr/sacrocygl region M54.09 Panniculitis aff regions, neck/bk, multiple sites in spine
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.
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