Specific code 2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 756.0
Anomalies of skull and face bones
  • Short description: Anomal skull/face bones.
  • ICD-9-CM 756.0 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 756.0 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2013 version of ICD-9-CM 756.0.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 756.0: 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 756.0 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM Q75.0 Craniosynostosis
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM Q75.2 Hypertelorism
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM Q75.9 Congenital malformation of skull and face bones, unspecified
Approximate Synonyms
  • Absence of skull bone
  • Absence, cranial bone
  • Anomaly of skull
  • Basilar skull invagination
  • Complex craniosynostosis
  • Congenital abnormality of skull and face bones
  • Congenital absence of cranial bone
  • Congenital deformity of facial bones
  • Congenital deformity of forehead
  • Congenital deformity of skull including facial bones
  • Congenital deformity, skull including facial bones
  • Craniosynostosis syndrome
  • Craniosynostosis, complex
  • Craniosynostosis, simple
  • Crouzon syndrome
  • Deformity of skull or facial bones, congenital
  • Delayed closure of anterior fontanel
  • Forehead deformity, congenital
  • Goldenhar syndrome
  • Hypertelorism
  • Invagination of basilar skull
  • Late closure of anterior fontanel
  • Macrocephaly
  • Macrocephaly, relative
  • Mandibulofacial dysostosis
  • Micrognathia-glossoptosis
  • Oculoauricular vertebral dysplasia
  • Oculomandibular dysostosis
  • Pierre Robin syndrome
  • Relative macrocephaly
  • Robin sequence
  • Robin syndrome
  • Simple craniosynostosis
  • Skull anomaly
  • Treacher collins syndrome
756.0 Excludes
  • acrocephalosyndactyly [Apert's syndrome] (755.55)
  • dentofacial anomalies (524.0-524.9)
  • skull defects associated with brain anomalies, such as:
Applies To
  • Absence of skull bones
  • Acrocephaly
  • Congenital deformity of forehead
  • Craniosynostosis
  • Crouzon's disease
  • Hypertelorism
  • Imperfect fusion of skull
  • Oxycephaly
  • Platybasia
  • Premature closure of cranial sutures
  • Tower skull
  • Trigonocephaly
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 756.0:
  • Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities - see also Anomaly
    • shape
      • cornea 743.41
      • gallbladder 751.69
      • gravid uterus 654.4
        • affecting fetus or newborn 763.89
        • causing obstructed labor 660.2
          • affecting fetus or newborn 763.1
      • head (see also Anomaly, skull) 756.0
      • organ or site, congenital NEC - see Distortion
    • size
      • fetus, complicating delivery 653.5
        • causing obstructed labor 660.1
      • gallbladder 751.69
      • head (see also Anomaly, skull) 756.0
      • organ or site, congenital NEC - see Distortion
      • teeth 520.2
  • Absence (organ or part) (complete or partial)
    • calvarium, calvaria (skull) 756.0
    • face
      • bones NEC 756.0
      • specified part NEC 744.89
    • skull bone 756.0
      • with
  • Accessory (congenital)
    • face bone(s) 756.0
    • frontonasal process 756.0
  • Acrobrachycephaly 756.0
  • Acrocephaly 756.0
  • Agenesis - see also Absence, by site, congenital
    • face
      • bones NEC 756.0
      • specified part NEC 744.89
    • skull (bone) 756.0
      • with
  • Anomaly, anomalous (congenital) (unspecified type) 759.9
    • face (any part) 744.9
      • bone(s) 756.0
      • specified type NEC 744.89
    • forehead (see also Anomaly, skull) 756.0
    • frontal bone (see also Anomaly, skull) 756.0
    • head (see also Anomaly, skull) 756.0
    • Pierre Robin 756.0
    • skull (bone) 756.0
      • with
  • Bird
    • face 756.0
  • Brachycephaly 756.0
  • Bulging fontanels (congenital) 756.0
  • Caput
    • crepitus 756.0
  • Closure
    • cranial sutures, premature 756.0
    • fontanelle, delayed 756.0
  • Craniofenestria (skull) 756.0
  • Craniolacunia (skull) 756.0
  • Cranioschisis 756.0
  • Craniostenosis 756.0
  • Craniosynostosis 756.0
  • Crepitus
    • caput 756.0
  • Crouzon's disease (craniofacial dysostosis) 756.0
  • Deficiency, deficient
    • craniofacial axis 756.0
  • Deficient - see also Deficiency
    • craniofacial axis 756.0
  • Deformity 738.9
    • cranium (acquired) 738.19
      • congenital (see also Deformity, skull, congenital) 756.0
    • forehead (acquired) 738.19
      • congenital (see also Deformity, skull, congenital) 756.0
    • frontal bone (acquired) 738.19
      • congenital (see also Deformity, skull, congenital) 756.0
    • head (acquired) 738.10
      • congenital (see also Deformity, skull, congenital) 756.0
      • specified NEC 738.19
    • Pierre Robin (congenital) 756.0
    • skull (acquired) 738.19
      • congenital 756.0
        • with
        • due to intrauterine malposition and pressure 754.0
  • Delay, delayed
    • closure - see also Fistula
      • cranial suture 756.0
      • fontanel 756.0
  • Diastasis
    • cranial bones 733.99
      • congenital 756.0
  • Dilatation
    • fontanel 756.0
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • Crouzon's (craniofacial dysostosis) 756.0
    • Friedreich's
      • combined systemic or ataxia 334.0
      • facial hemihypertrophy 756.0
      • myoclonia 333.2
  • Distortion (congenital)
    • face bone(s) 756.0
    • skull bone(s) 756.0
      • with
  • Duplication - see also Accessory
    • frontonasal process 756.0
  • Dysostosis
    • craniofacial 756.0
    • mandibularis 756.0
    • mandibulofacial, incomplete 756.0
  • Dysplasia - see also Anomaly
    • oculoauriculovertebral 756.0
  • Ecchordosis physaliphora 756.0
  • Franceschetti's syndrome (mandibulofacial dysostosis) 756.0
  • Fusion, fused (congenital)
    • cranial sutures, premature 756.0
    • skull, imperfect 756.0
  • Goldenhar's syndrome (oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia) 756.0
  • Greig's syndrome (hypertelorism) 756.0
  • Hallermann-Streiff syndrome 756.0
  • Hemihypertrophy (congenital) 759.89
    • cranial 756.0
  • Hyperostosis 733.99
    • skull 733.3
      • congenital 756.0
  • Hypertelorism 756.0
  • Hypoplasia, hypoplasis 759.89
    • skull (bone) 756.0
      • with
  • Idiot, idiocy (congenital) 318.2
    • oxycephalic 756.0
  • Imperfect
  • Impression, basilar 756.0
  • Invagination
    • basilar 756.0
  • Lacunar skull 756.0
  • Macrocephalia, macrocephaly 756.0
  • Maldevelopment - see also Anomaly, by site
    • mastoid process 756.0
  • Megalocephalus, megalocephaly NEC 756.0
  • Nager-de Reynier syndrome (dysostosis mandibularis) 756.0
  • Oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia 756.0
  • Ossification
    • fontanel
      • defective or delayed 756.0
      • premature 756.0
  • Oxycephaly, oxycephalic 756.0
    • syphilitic, congenital 090.0
  • Pierre Robin deformity or syndrome (congenital) 756.0
  • Platybasia 756.0
  • Premature - see also condition
    • closure
      • cranial suture 756.0
      • fontanel 756.0
      • foramen ovale 745.8
  • Robin's syndrome 756.0
  • Scaphocephaly 756.0
  • Stenocephaly 756.0
  • Sunken
    • fontanels 756.0
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • eyelid-malar-mandible 756.0
    • first arch 756.0
    • Franceschetti's (mandibulofacial dysostosis) 756.0
    • Goldenhar's (oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia) 756.0
    • Greig's (hypertelorism) 756.0
    • Hallermann-Strieff 756.0
    • incomplete
      • mandibulofacial 756.0
    • mandibulofacial dysostosis 756.0
    • micrognathia-glossoptosis 756.0
    • Nager-de Reynier (dysostosis mandibularis) 756.0
    • OAV (oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia) 756.0
    • Pierre Robin 756.0
    • Robin's 756.0
    • Treacher Collins' (incomplete mandibulofacial dysostosis) 756.0
  • Tower skull 756.0
    • with exophthalmos 756.0
  • Treacher Collins' syndrome (incomplete facial dysostosis) 756.0
  • Trigonocephaly 756.0
  • Turricephaly 756.0
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