ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M60-M63 › M60.26 Foreign body granuloma of soft... › M60.262

M60.262

Foreign body granuloma of soft tissue, not elsewhere classified, left lower leg

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Foreign body granuloma of soft tissue, not elsewhere classified, left lower leg

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from M60 Myositis

Excludes2 - not included here

  • inclusion body myositis [IBM] (G72.41)

Inherited from the M60-M63 section Disorders of muscles (M60-M63)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • dermatopolymyositis (M33.-)
  • myopathy in amyloidosis (E85.-)
  • myopathy in polyarteritis nodosa (M30.0)
  • myopathy in rheumatoid arthritis (M05.32)
  • myopathy in scleroderma (M34.-)
  • myopathy in Sjögren's syndrome (M35.03)
  • myopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.-)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • muscular dystrophies and myopathies (G71-G72)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
M60.261 Foreign body granuloma of soft tissue, not elsewhere classified, right lower leg Valid
M60.269 Foreign body granuloma of soft tissue, not elsewhere classified, unspecified lower leg Valid