ICD-11 classes
09 Diseases of the visual system
Strabismus or ocular motility disorders
Diseases of neuromuscular junction or muscle
Primary disorders of muscles
8C70 — Muscular dystrophy
8C70.5 — Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy
ICD-11 8C70.5 — Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy
Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophies are a group of genetically heterogeneous myopathies characterised by progressive weakness and wasting of scapular and anterior leg muscles. Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a classic scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy associated with early contractures and cardiac arrhythmia, but other muscle disorders can also present with a scapuloperoneal phenotype.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 2 items.
- Secondary myopathies (8C80-8C8Z)
- Myasthenia gravis or certain specified neuromuscular junction disorders (8C60-8C6Z)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Muscular dystrophy #7450