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Specific code 2007 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 272.8
Other disorders of lipoid metabolism
  • Short description: LIPOID METABOL DIS NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 272.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 272.8 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2007 version of ICD-9-CM 272.8.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 272.8: 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 272.8 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM E78.81 Lipoid dermatoarthritis
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM E78.89 Other lipoprotein metabolism disorders
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM E88.89 Other specified metabolic disorders
Approximate Synonyms
  • Adiposis tuberosa simplex
  • Benign familial lipomatosis
  • Benign symmetric lipomatosis
  • Combined long chain hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
  • Congenital diffuse lipomatosis
  • Cutaneous reticulohistiocytosis
  • Delta-4-3-oxosteroid-5-beta-reductase deficiency
  • Disorder of cholesterol catabolism
  • Dyslipidemia
  • Familial disease with storage of sterols
  • Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency
  • Familial multiple lipomata
  • Farber's lipogranulomatosis
  • Fat necrosis
  • Ganglioside sialidase deficiency
  • Homozygous sitosterolemia
  • Intestinal lipofuscinosis
  • Isolated long chain hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
  • Lipid proteinosis
  • Lipogranulomatosis subcutanea of Rothmann and Makai
  • Lipoid dermatoarthritis
  • Lipomatosis
  • Lipomatosis circumscripta
  • Lipomatosis dolorosa
  • Lipomatosis gigantea
  • Liposynovitis prepatellaris
  • Madelung's neck
  • Nodular circumscribed lipomatosis
  • Nodular fat necrosis
  • Oil granuloma
  • Phytanic acid storage disease
  • Proteinosis
  • Traumatic fat necrosis
Applies To
  • Hoffa's disease or liposynovitis prepatellaris
  • Launois-Bensaude's lipomatosis
  • Lipoid dermatoarthritis
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 272.8:
  • Adenolipomatosis (symmetrical) 272.8
  • Adiposa dolorosa 272.8
  • Adiposalgia 272.8
  • Adiposis
    • dolorosa 272.8
    • tuberosa simplex 272.8
  • Anders' disease or syndrome (adiposis tuberosa simplex) 272.8
  • Atheromatosis - see also Arteriosclerosis
    • arterial, congenital 272.8
  • Degeneration, degenerative
    • fatty (diffuse) (general) 272.8
      • liver 571.8
      • localized site - see Degeneration, by site, fatty
      • placenta - see Placenta, abnormal
  • Dercum's disease or syndrome (adiposis dolorosa) 272.8
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • Anders' (adiposis tuberosa simplex) 272.8
    • Dercum's (adiposis dolorosa) 272.8
    • Farber's (disseminated lipogranulomatosis) 272.8
    • Hoffa (-Kastert) (liposynovitis prepatellaris) 272.8
    • Madelung's (lipomatosis) 272.8
    • Urbach-Wiethe (lipoid proteinosis) 272.8
  • Disorder - see also Disease
  • Disturbance - see also Disease
  • Elevation
    • lipoprotein a level 272.8
  • Farber (-Uzman) syndrome or disease (disseminated lipogranulomatosis) 272.8
  • Fatty - see also condition
    • degeneration (diffuse) (general) NEC 272.8
      • localized - see Degeneration, by site, fatty
      • placenta - see Placenta, abnormal
    • infiltration (diffuse) (general) (see also Degeneration, by site, fatty) 272.8
      • heart (enlarged) (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • phanerosis 272.8
  • Hoffa (-Kastert) disease or syndrome (liposynovitis prepatellaris) 272.8
  • Hyalinosis cutis et mucosae 272.8
  • Infiltrate, infiltration
    • fatty (diffuse) (generalized) 272.8
      • localized - see Degeneration, by site, fatty
  • Launois-Bensaude's lipomatosis 272.8
  • Lipalgia 272.8
  • Lipoglycoproteinosis 272.8
  • Lipogranulomatosis (disseminated) 272.8
    • kidney 272.8
  • Lipoid - see also condition
    • proteinosis of Urbach 272.8
  • Lipomatosis (dolorosa) 272.8
    • fetal (M8881/0) - see Lipoma, by site
    • Launois-Bensaude's 272.8
  • Lipoproteinosis (Rossle-Urbach-Wiethe) 272.8
  • Liposynovitis prepatellaris 272.8
  • Madelung's
    • disease (lipomatosis) 272.8
    • lipomatosis 272.8
  • Necrosis, necrotic
    • fat, fatty (generalized) (see also Degeneration, fatty) 272.8
  • Neurolipomatosis 272.8
  • Proteinosis
    • lipid 272.8
    • lipoid (of Urbach) 272.8
  • Reticulohistiocytosis, multicentric 272.8
  • Rossle-Urbach-Wiethe lipoproteinosis 272.8
  • Steatosis 272.8
    • heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Dercum's (adiposis dolorosa) 272.8
    • Farber (-Uzman) (disseminated lipogranulomatosis) 272.8
    • Hoffa (-Kastert) (liposynovitis prepatellaris) 272.8
    • Urbach-Wiethe (lipoid proteinosis) 272.8
  • Urbach's lipoid proteinosis 272.8
  • Urbach-Wiethe disease or syndrome (lipoid proteinosis) 272.8
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