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I am looking for diagnosis code for Abscess of lumbar paraspinal muscle. I have looked and can't seem to find anything. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Best I can find so far is M60.08 - Infective myositis, other site
I was led here by the index Abscess > Muscle and it said see Myositis, infective
I then only saw options for extremities so i chose the NEC option
Any chance its a Psoas muscle abscess (K68.12) The Psoas Major muscle's origin is the transverse processes of T12-L5 and the lateral aspects of the discs between them.