Chapter 13

M00–M99: Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue

Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue diagnostic classification updated for 2026.

Chapter Instructions

Excludes2(Not included here. Code separately if applicable.)
  • arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Internal Codes
  • M51.45

    Schmorl's nodes, thoracolumbar region

  • M51.46

    Schmorl's nodes, lumbar region

  • M51.47

    Schmorl's nodes, lumbosacral region

  • M51.84

    Other intervertebral disc disorders, thoracic region

  • M51.85

    Other intervertebral disc disorders, thoracolumbar region

  • M51.86

    Other intervertebral disc disorders, lumbar region

  • M51.87

    Other intervertebral disc disorders, lumbosacral region

  • M51.9

    Unspecified thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorder

  • M51.A0

    Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, lumbar region, unspecified size

  • M51.A1

    Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, small, lumbar region

  • M51.A2

    Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, large, lumbar region

  • M51.A3

    Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, lumbosacral region, unspecified size

  • M51.A4

    Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, small, lumbosacral region

  • M51.A5

    Intervertebral annulus fibrosus defect, large, lumbosacral region

  • M53.0

    Cervicocranial syndrome

  • M53.1

    Cervicobrachial syndrome

  • M53.2X1

    Spinal instabilities, occipito-atlanto-axial region

  • M53.2X2

    Spinal instabilities, cervical region

  • M53.2X3

    Spinal instabilities, cervicothoracic region

  • M53.2X4

    Spinal instabilities, thoracic region

  • M53.2X5

    Spinal instabilities, thoracolumbar region

  • M53.2X6

    Spinal instabilities, lumbar region

  • M53.2X7

    Spinal instabilities, lumbosacral region

  • M53.2X8

    Spinal instabilities, sacral and sacrococcygeal region

  • M53.2X9

    Spinal instabilities, site unspecified

  • M53.3

    Sacrococcygeal disorders, not elsewhere classified

  • M53.80

    Other specified dorsopathies, site unspecified

  • M53.81

    Other specified dorsopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region

  • M53.82

    Other specified dorsopathies, cervical region

  • M53.83

    Other specified dorsopathies, cervicothoracic region

  • M53.84

    Other specified dorsopathies, thoracic region

  • M53.85

    Other specified dorsopathies, thoracolumbar region

  • M53.86

    Other specified dorsopathies, lumbar region

  • M53.87

    Other specified dorsopathies, lumbosacral region

  • M53.88

    Other specified dorsopathies, sacral and sacrococcygeal region

  • M53.9

    Dorsopathy, unspecified

  • M54.00

    Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, site unspecified

  • M54.01

    Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, occipito-atlanto-axial region

  • M54.02

    Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, cervical region

  • M54.03

    Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, cervicothoracic region

  • M54.04

    Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, thoracic region

  • M54.05

    Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, thoracolumbar region

  • M54.06

    Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, lumbar region

  • M54.07

    Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, lumbosacral region

  • M54.08

    Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, sacral and sacrococcygeal region

  • M54.09

    Panniculitis affecting regions, neck and back, multiple sites in spine

  • M54.10

    Radiculopathy, site unspecified

  • M54.11

    Radiculopathy, occipito-atlanto-axial region

  • M54.12

    Radiculopathy, cervical region

  • M54.13

    Radiculopathy, cervicothoracic region

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