Specific code 2007 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 334.8
Other spinocerebellar diseases
  • Short description: SPINOCEREBELLAR DIS NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 334.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 334.8 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 334.8.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 334.8: 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 334.8 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM G11.3 Cerebellar ataxia with defective DNA repair
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM G11.8 Other hereditary ataxias
Approximate Synonyms
  • Ataxia telangiectasia syndrome
  • Ataxia-telangiectasia syndrome
  • Azorean disease
  • Azorean disease, type II
  • Bailey-Cushing syndrome
  • Corticostriatal spinal degeneration
  • Corticostriatal-spinal degeneration
  • Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy
  • Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA)
  • Dentatorubropallidoluysian degeneration
  • Jervis' syndrome
  • Machado Joseph disease
  • Primary hereditary spinocerebellar disease nondemyelinating type
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia, Type 1
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia, Type 2
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia, Type 3
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia, Type 4
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia, Type 5
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia, Type 6
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia, Type 7
  • Spinocerebellar disease, non-demyelinating
  • Spinocerebellar disease, primary hereditary and non-demyelinating type
Applies To
  • Ataxia-telangiectasia [Louis-Bar syndrome]
  • Corticostriatal-spinal degeneration
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 334.8:
  • Ataxia, ataxy, ataxic 781.3
    • telangiectasia 334.8
  • Ataxia-telangiectasia 334.8
  • Azorean disease (of the nervous system) 334.8
  • Boder-Sedgwick syndrome (ataxia-telangiectasia) 334.8
  • Degeneration, degenerative
    • corticostriatal-spinal 334.8
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • Azorean (of the nervous system) 334.8
    • Machado-Joseph 334.8
    • spinocerebellar 334.9
      • specified NEC 334.8
  • Hemiatrophy 799.89
    • cerebellar 334.8
  • Louis-Bar syndrome (ataxia-telangiectasia) 334.8
  • Machado-Joseph disease 334.8
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • ataxia-telangiectasia 334.8
    • Boder-Sedgwick (ataxia-telangiectasia) 334.8
    • Louis-Bar (ataxia-telangiectasia) 334.8
  • Telangiectasia, telangiectasis (verrucous) 448.9
    • ataxic (cerebellar) 334.8
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