M85.2
Hyperostosis of skull
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 14 never code together
M85code
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 13
- Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- Buchem's syndrome (hyperostosis corticalis) M85.2
- Hyperostosis (monomelic) — see also Disorder, bone, density and structure, specified NEC
- Craniopathy, metabolic M85.2
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Morgagni's (syndrome) (hyperostosis frontalis interna) M85.2
- Leontiasis
- ossium M85.2
- Morel-Moore syndrome M85.2
- Morel (-Stewart)(-Morgagni) syndrome M85.2
- Morgagni's
- syndrome M85.2
- Morgagni-Stewart-Morel syndrome M85.2
- Stewart-Morel syndrome M85.2
- Van Buchem's syndrome M85.2
Alongside this code 8 same parent — M85
M85.0 Fibrous dysplasia (monostotic) category M85.1 Skeletal fluorosis category M85.3 Osteitis condensans category M85.4 Solitary bone cyst category M85.5 Aneurysmal bone cyst category M85.6 Other cyst of bone category M85.8 Other specified disorders of bone density and structure category M85.9 Disorder of bone density and structure, unspecified
Additional references
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