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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about endometriosis and death from endometriosis.
Meaning of endometriosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, endometriosis:
(a)          means a condition in females in which functional endometrial tissue occurs outside the uterus, resulting in clinical symptoms and signs or warranting treatment; and
(b)          excludes adenomyosis.
Note: Endometriosis commonly manifests with abdominal pain, a pelvic mass or infertility.
(3)          While endometriosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code N80, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of endometriosis is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from endometriosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, endometriosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's endometriosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.