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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 cerebral meningioma and death from cerebral meningioma.
Meaning of cerebral meningioma
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, cerebral meningioma means a primary benign or intermediate grade tumour of the cerebral meninges.
(3)          While cerebral meningioma attracts ICD‑10‑AM code D32.0 or D32.9, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of cerebral meningioma 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 cerebral meningioma
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, cerebral meningioma, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's cerebral meningioma.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.