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8C70 Muscular dystrophy

International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 11th Revision, v2024-01

Progressive, hereditary skeletal muscle diseases characterised by muscle weakness, wasting, defects in muscle proteins, necrosis of muscle tissue and replacement of muscle tissue with connective and fatty tissue.

code elsewhere

• Muscular dystrophy affecting extraocular muscle  (9C82.1)
• Barth syndrome  (5C50.E0)
• Epidermolysis bullosa simplex with muscular dystrophy  (EC30)

sections/codes in this section (8C70-8C70)

• Becker muscular dystrophy  (8C70.0)
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy  (8C70.1)
• Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy  (8C70.2)
• Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy  (8C70.3)
• Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy  (8C70.4)
• Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy  (8C70.5)
• Congenital muscular dystrophy  (8C70.6)
• Other specified muscular dystrophy  (8C70.Y)
• Muscular dystrophy, unspecified  (8C70.Z)

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