Section
S60-S69
Injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers (S60-S69)
Hierarchy
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S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
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S60-S69 Injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers (S60-S69)
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S60 Superficial injury of wrist, hand and fingers
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S61 Open wound of wrist, hand and fingers
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S62 Fracture at wrist and hand level
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S63 Dislocation and sprain of joints and ligaments at wrist and hand level
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S64 Injury of nerves at wrist and hand level
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S65 Injury of blood vessels at wrist and hand level
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S66 Injury of muscle, fascia and tendon at wrist and hand level
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S67 Crushing injury of wrist, hand and fingers
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S68 Traumatic amputation of wrist, hand and fingers
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S69 Other and unspecified injuries of wrist, hand and finger(s)
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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.