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2010 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 755.37
Longitudinal deficiency fibular complete or partial (with or without distal deficiencies incomplete)
- Short description: Longitudin defic fibula.
- ICD-9-CM 755.37 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
- You are viewing the 2010 version of ICD-9-CM 755.37.
- More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 755.37: 2011 2012 2013.
755.37 Alternative Terminology
- Bilateral longitudinal deficiency of fibulas
- Congenital absence of fibula
- Fibular hemimelia
- Longitudinal deficiency of fibula
- Longitudinal deficiency of left fibula
- Longitudinal deficiency of right fibula
- Longitudinal reduction defect of bilat fibulas
- Longitudinal reduction defect of fibula
- Longitudinal reduction defect of l fibula
- Longitudinal reduction defect of left fibula
- Longitudinal reduction defect of r fibula
- Longitudinal reduction defect of right fibula
Applies To
- Agenesis of fibula
- Congenital absence of fibula (with or without absence of some [but not all] distal elements)
Convert 755.37 to ICD-10-CM 
ICD-9-CM 755.37 converts approximately to:
- 2013 ICD-10-CM Q72.60 Longitudinal reduction defect of unspecified fibula
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 755.37:
- Absence (organ or part) (complete or partial)
fibula, congenital (complete) (partial) (with absence of distal elements, incomplete) (see also Deformity, reduction, lower limb) 755.37
- Agenesis - see also Absence, by site, congenital
- fibula NEC (see also Absence, fibula, congenital) 755.37
- Deficiency, deficient
- Deformity 738.9
- reduction (extremity) (limb) 755.4
brain 742.2- lower limb 755.30
- upper limb 755.20
- Hemimelia 755.4
- Hypoplasia, hypoplasis 759.89
- fibula (see also Absence, fibula, congenital) 755.37
- Meromelia 755.4
- lower limb 755.30
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