Coding Guidelines

Inclusion Terms

  • Absence of part of brain
  • Agenesis of part of brain
  • Agyria
  • Aplasia of part of brain
  • Hydranencephaly
  • Hypoplasia of part of brain
  • Lissencephaly
  • Microgyria
  • Pachygyria

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with Q04.3

  • Q04.0 - congenital malformations of corpus callosum (Q04.0)

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