Kodex

Code

Z89.9

Acquired absence of limb, unspecified

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Hierarchy

Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
- Z77-Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)
  - Z89 Acquired absence of limb
    - Z89.0 Acquired absence of thumb and other finger(s)
    - Z89.1 Acquired absence of hand and wrist
    - Z89.2 Acquired absence of upper limb above wrist
    - Z89.4 Acquired absence of toe(s), foot, and ankle
    - Z89.5 Acquired absence of leg below knee
    - Z89.6 Acquired absence of leg above knee
    - Z89.9 Acquired absence of limb, unspecified

Notes

Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
(a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
(b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.

Code Also

any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)

Includes

amputation status
postprocedural loss of limb
post-traumatic loss of limb

Excludes 1

acquired deformities of limbs (M20-M21)
congenital absence of limbs (Q71-Q73)