Q79.8
Other congenital malformations of musculoskeletal system
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 1 never code together
Instructional notes 7
Q79.8code
Inclusion terms
- Absence of muscle
- Absence of tendon
- Accessory muscle
- Amyotrophia congenita
- Congenital constricting bands
- Congenital shortening of tendon
- Poland syndrome
Index entries leading here 20
- Absence (of) (organ or part) (complete or partial)
- Accessory (congenital)
- Acromicria, acromikria Q79.8
- Agenesis
- Amyoplasia congenita Q79.8
- Amyotrophia, amyotrophy, amyotrophic G71.8
- congenita Q79.8
- Band (s)
- constricting, congenital Q79.8
- Fusion, fused (congenital)
- bone Q79.8
- Supernumerary (congenital)
- Diastasis
- Contraction (s) , contracture, contracted
- Short, shortening, shortness
- tendon — see also Contraction, tendon
- congenital Q79.8
- tendon — see also Contraction, tendon
- Dysplasia — see also Anomaly
- muscle Q79.8
- Hypoplasia, hypoplastic
- muscle Q79.8
- Krabbe's
- syndrome, congenital muscle hypoplasia Q79.8
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- Myelo-osteo-musculodysplasia hereditaria Q79.8
- Poland syndrome Q79.8
- Thoracogastroschisis (congenital) Q79.8
- Touraine's syndrome Q79.8
Alongside this code 8 same parent — Q79
Q79.0 Congenital diaphragmatic hernia Q79.1 Other congenital malformations of diaphragm Q79.2 Exomphalos Q79.3 Gastroschisis Q79.4 Prune belly syndrome Q79.5 Other congenital malformations of abdominal wall category Q79.6 Ehlers-Danlos syndromes category Q79.9 Congenital malformation of musculoskeletal system, unsp
Medications 2
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