ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q65-Q79 › Q78 Other osteochondrodysplasias › Q78.6
Multiple congenital exostoses
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Multiple congenital exostoses
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 Q78 Other osteochondrodysplasias
Excludes2 - not included here
- congenital myotonic chondrodystrophy (G71.13)
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.
- Diaphysial aclasis
- Aclasis, diaphyseal
- Exostosis > congenital
- Exostosis > multiple, congenital
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q78.0 | Osteogenesis imperfecta | Valid |
| Q78.1 | Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia | Valid |
| Q78.2 | Osteopetrosis | Valid |
| Q78.3 | Progressive diaphyseal dysplasia | Valid |
| Q78.4 | Enchondromatosis | Valid |
| Q78.5 | Metaphyseal dysplasia | Valid |
| Q78.8 | Other specified osteochondrodysplasias | Valid |
| Q78.9 | Osteochondrodysplasia, unspecified | Valid |