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Code

M54.51

Vertebrogenic low back pain

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Hierarchy

M00-M99 Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99)
- M50-M54 Other dorsopathies (M50-M54)
  - M54 Dorsalgia
    - M54.5 Low back pain
      - M54.50 Low back pain, unspecified
      - M54.51 Vertebrogenic low back pain
      - M54.59 Other low back pain

Notes

Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition

Inclusion Terms

M54.51

Low back vertebral endplate pain

Excludes 1

low back strain (S39.012)
- S39.012 Strain of muscle, fascia and tendon of lower back
lumbago due to intervertebral disc displacement (M51.2-)
- M51.2 Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc displacement
M54.4 Lumbago with sciatica

psychogenic dorsalgia (F45.41)
- F45.41 Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors

current injury - see injury of spine by body region
discitis NOS (M46.4-)
- M46.4 Discitis, unspecified

Excludes 2

L40.5 Arthropathic psoriasis
certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
A00-B99 Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
- T79.A Traumatic compartment syndrome
complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- O00-O9A Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- Q00-Q99 Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
C00-D49 Neoplasms (C00-D49)
symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)