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2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 755.33
Longitudinal deficiency combined involving femur tibia and fibula (complete or incomplete)
- Short description: COMB LONGITUDIN DEF LEG.
- ICD-9-CM 755.33 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
- You are viewing the 2008 version of ICD-9-CM 755.33.
- More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 755.33: 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013.
755.33 Alternative Terminology
- Complete phocomelia of bilateral lower limbs
- Complete phocomelia of lower limb
- Congenital absence of bilat thighs and lower legs
- Congenital absence of bilat thighs and lower legs w feet present
- Congenital absence of thigh and lower leg
- Congenital absence of thigh and lower leg w foot present
Applies To
- Congenital absence of thigh and (lower) leg (complete or incomplete) with or without metacarpal deficiency and/or phalangeal deficiency, incomplete
- Phocomelia, complete, of lower limb
Convert 755.33 to ICD-10-CM 
ICD-9-CM 755.33 converts approximately to:
- 2013 ICD-10-CM Q72.10 Congenital absence of unspecified thigh and lower leg with foot present
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 755.33:
- Absence (organ or part) (complete or partial)
femur, congenital (complete) (partial) (with absence of distal elements, incomplete) (see also Deformity, reduction, lower limb) 755.34
with
complete absence of distal elements 755.31- tibia and fibula (incomplete) 755.33
- fibula, congenital (complete) (partial) (with absence of distal elements, incomplete) (see also Deformity, reduction, lower limb) 755.37
- leg (acquired) V49.70
- tibia, congenital (complete) (partial) (with absence of distal elements, incomplete) (see also Deformity, reduction, lower limb) 755.36
- Deficiency, deficient
- Deformity 738.9
- reduction (extremity) (limb) 755.4
- brain 742.2
- lower limb 755.30
- upper limb 755.20
- Meromelia 755.4
- lower limb 755.30
- Phocomelia 755.4
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