ICD-11 classes
08 Diseases of the nervous system
Nutritional or toxic disorders of the nervous system
8D43 — Neurological disorders due to toxicity
8D43.5 — Cassava poisoning
ICD-11 8D43.5 — Cassava poisoning
Symmetrical, non-progressive, non-remitting spastic paraparesia occurring in epidemic and endemic forms with a predilection for children and young women1, 2. The unknown etiology is related to consumption of bitter cassava roots with very minimal protein supplementation.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
The diagnosis is included in 1 another class.
- Myelopathy due to konzo (8B42)