kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Section

T14.8

Other injury of unspecified body region

Hierarchy

  • S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
    • T14 Injury of unspecified body region
      • T14.8 Other injury of unspecified body region

Notes

S00-T88

  • Use secondary code(s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code
  • The chapter uses the S-section for coding different types of injuries related to single body regions and the T-section to cover injuries to unspecified body regions as well as poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.

Inclusion Terms

T14.8

  • Abrasion NOS
  • Contusion NOS
  • Crush injury NOS
  • Fracture NOS
  • Skin injury NOS
  • Vascular injury NOS
  • Wound NOS

Use Additional

S00-T88

  • code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)
    • Z18 Retained foreign body fragments

Excludes 1

T14

  • multiple unspecified injuries (T07)
    • T07 Unspecified multiple injuries

S00-T88

  • P10-P15 Birth trauma (P10-P15)
  • obstetric trauma (O70-O71)