Spontaneous rupture of extensor tendons, shoulder

• arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
• certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
• certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
• compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
• complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
• congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
• endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
• injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
• neoplasms (C00-D49)
• symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition

rupture that occurs when a normal force is applied to tissues that are inferred to have less than normal strength

• rotator cuff syndrome (M75.1-)
• rupture where an abnormal force is applied to normal tissue - see injury of tendon by body region