Section
T15
Foreign body on external eye
Hierarchy
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S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
Notes
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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
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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.
Use Additional
Excludes 1
Excludes 2
T15
- foreign body in penetrating wound of orbit and eye ball (S05.4-, S05.5-)
- S01.1 Open wound of eyelid and periocular area
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retained foreign body in eyelid (H02.8-)
- H02.8 Other specified disorders of eyelid
- retained (old) foreign body in penetrating wound of orbit and eye ball (H05.5-, H44.6-, H44.7-)
- S00.25 Superficial foreign body of eyelid and periocular area
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foreign body accidentally left in operation wound (T81.5-)
- T81.5 Complications of foreign body accidentally left in body following procedure
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foreign body in penetrating wound - See open wound by body region
- M79.5 Residual foreign body in soft tissue
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splinter, without open wound - See superficial injury by body region