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2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 737.9
Unspecified curvature of spine
- ICD-9-CM 737.9 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
737.9 Alternative Terminology
- Acquired curvature of spine
- Acquired hunchback
- Camptocormia
- Curvature of spine
- Curvature of spine due to osteomalacia
- Deforming dorsopathy
- Hunchback, acquired
737.9 Excludes 
- deformity of spine NOS (738.5
)
Applies To
- Curvature of spine (acquired) (idiopathic) NOS
- Hunchback, acquired
Convert 737.9 to ICD-10-CM
ICD-9-CM 737.9 converts approximately to:
- 2013 ICD-10-CM M43.8X9 Other specified deforming dorsopathies, site unspecified
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 737.9:
- Angulation
spine (see also Curvature, spine) 737.9
- Contraction, contracture, contracted
- spine (see also Curvature, spine) 737.9
- Curvature
- spine (acquired) (angular) (idiopathic) (incorrect) (postural) 737.9
congenital 754.2- due to or associated with
- kyphoscoliotic (see also Kyphoscoliosis) 737.30
- kyphotic (see also Kyphosis) 737.10
- late effect of rickets 268.1 [737.40]
- Pott's 015.0 [737.40]
- scoliotic (see also Scoliosis) 737.30
- specified NEC 737.8
- tuberculous 015.0 [737.40]
- Defect, defective 759.9
- postural, spine 737.9
- Humpback (acquired) 737.9
- congenital 756.19
- Hunchback (acquired) 737.9
- congenital 756.19
- Short, shortening, shortness
- back 737.9
- Tilting vertebra 737.9
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