Thoracic spine pain

Description

This is a group of conditions characterised by pain perceived anywhere in the region bounded superiorly by a transverse line through the tip of the spinous process of T1, inferiorly by a transverse line through the tip of the spinous process of T12, and laterally by vertical lines tangential to the most lateral margins of the erector spinae muscles.

Excludes

• MG30.02 – Chronic primary thoracic pain
• MG30.3 – Chronic secondary musculoskeletal pain
• MG30.5 – Chronic neuropathic pain

Exclusions from above levels

• ME86.2 – Symptom or complaint of the back
• 19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
• JA66 – Clinical findings on antenatal screening of mother