ICD-11 classes
20 Developmental anomalies
Structural developmental anomalies primarily affecting one...
Structural developmental anomalies of the nervous system
LA07 — Structural developmental anomalies of the neurenteric...
LA07.0 — Primary tethered cord syndrome
ICD-11 LA07.0 — Primary tethered cord syndrome
A condition caused by failure of the spinal cord to correctly develop during the antenatal period. This condition is characterised by tethering of the spinal cord to the spinal canal. This condition may present with lower back skin appendages, radicular pain, weakness, asymmetric hyporeflexia, spasticity, sensory changes, bowel or bladder dysfunction, or motor dysfunction. Confirmation is through observation of a tethered spinal cord by imaging.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: