2006 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Diseases Of The Nervous System And Sense Organs 320-389 > Disorders Of The Peripheral Nervous System 350-359 > Muscular Dystrophies And Other Myopathies 359.* > 2006 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 359.0 Congenital hereditary muscular dystrophy View the most recent version of ICD-9-CM 359.0 An inherited congenital myopathic condition characterized by weakness and hypotonia in infancy and delayed motor development. Muscle biopsy reveals a condensation of myofibrils and myofibrillar material in the central portion of each muscle fiber. A group of inherited congenital myopathic conditions characterized clinically by weakness, hypotonia, and prominent hypoplasia of proximal muscles including the face. Muscle biopsy reveals large numbers of rod-shaped structures beneath the muscle fiber plasma membrane. This disorder is genetically heterogeneous and may occasionally present in adults. 359.0 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 359.0 contains 11 index entries View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 359.* hierarchy Alternate Terminology Benign congenital myopathy Central core disease Centronuclear myopathy Myotubular myopathy Nemaline body disease 359.0 Excludes arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (754.89)  Index entries containing 359.0: Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome central core 359.0 nemaline body 359.0 Dystrophy, dystrophia 783.9 muscular 359.1 congenital (hereditary) 359.0 myotonic 359.2 Hypotonia, hypotonicity, hypotony 781.3 infantile muscular (benign) 359.0 Myopathy 359.9 benign, congenital 359.0 central core 359.0 centronuclear 359.0 congenital (benign) 359.0 myotubular 359.0 nemaline 359.0 rod body 359.0