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2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 253.0
Acromegaly and gigantism
- ICD-9-CM 253.0 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
Applies To
- Overproduction of growth hormone
Convert 253.0 to ICD-10-CM 
ICD-9-CM 253.0 converts approximately to:
- 2013 ICD-10-CM E22.0 Acromegaly and pituitary gigantism
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 253.0:
- Acromegaly, acromegalia (skin) 253.0
- Erdheim's syndrome (acromegalic macrospondylitis) 253.0
- Gigantism (cerebral) (hypophyseal) (pituitary) 253.0
- Hypersecretion
- Hypersomatotropism (classic) 253.0
- Hypophyseal, hypophysis - see also condition
gigantism 253.0
- Launois' syndrome (pituitary gigantism) 253.0
- Macrospondylitis, acromegalic 253.0
- Marie's
- syndrome (acromegaly) 253.0
- Overproduction - see also Hypersecretion
- growth hormone 253.0
- Scaglietti-Dagnini syndrome (acromegalic macrospondylitis) 253.0
- Sotos' syndrome (cerebral gigantism) 253.0
- Syndrome - see also Disease
cerebral gigantism 253.0
- costovertebral 253.0
- Erdheim's (acromegalic macrospondylitis) 253.0
- Launois' (pituitary gigantism) 253.0
- Marie's (acromegaly) 253.0
- pituitary 253.0
- Scaglietti-Dagnini (acromegalic macrospondylitis) 253.0
- Sotos' (cerebral gigantism) 253.0
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