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2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 259.4

Dwarfism not elsewhere classified

  • The condition of being undersized as a result of premature arrest of skeletal growth. It may be caused by insufficient secretion of growth hormone (DWARFISM, PITUITARY).
  • 259.4 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis
  • 259.4 contains 6 index entries
  • View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 259.* hierarchy

259.4 also known as:

  • Dwarfism:
    • NOS
    • constitutional

259.4 excludes:


Index entries containing 259.4:

Dwarf, dwarfism 259.4
  • with infantilism (hypophyseal) 253.3
  • achondroplastic 756.4
  • Amsterdam 759.89
  • bird-headed 759.89
  • congenital 259.4
  • constitutional 259.4
  • hypophyseal 253.3
  • infantile 259.4
  • Levi type 253.3
  • Lorain-Levi (pituitary) 253.3
  • Lorain type (pituitary) 253.3
  • metatropic 756.4
  • nephrotic-glycosuric, with hypophosphatemic rickets 270.0
  • nutritional 263.2
  • ovarian 758.6
  • pancreatic 577.8
  • pituitary 253.3
  • polydystrophic 277.5
  • primordial 253.3
  • psychosocial 259.4
  • renal 588.0
    • with hypertension - see Hypertension, kidney
  • Russell's (uterine dwarfism and craniofacial dysostosis) 759.89
Nanism, nanosomia (see also Dwarfism) 259.4