Section
S80-S89
Injuries to the knee and lower leg (S80-S89)
Hierarchy
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S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
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S80-S89 Injuries to the knee and lower leg (S80-S89)
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S80 Superficial injury of knee and lower leg
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S81 Open wound of knee and lower leg
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S82 Fracture of lower leg, including ankle
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S83 Dislocation and sprain of joints and ligaments of knee
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S84 Injury of nerves at lower leg level
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S85 Injury of blood vessels at lower leg level
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S86 Injury of muscle, fascia and tendon at lower leg level
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S87 Crushing injury of lower leg
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S88 Traumatic amputation of lower leg
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S89 Other and unspecified injuries of lower leg
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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.