kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Section

T15.0

Foreign body in cornea

Hierarchy

  • S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
    • T15-T19 Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice (T15-T19)
      • T15 Foreign body on external eye
        • T15.0 Foreign body in cornea
          • T15.00 Foreign body in cornea, unspecified eye
          • T15.01 Foreign body in cornea, right eye
          • T15.02 Foreign body in cornea, left eye

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.

Use Additional

T15-T19

  • code, if known, for foreign body entering into or through a natural orifice (W44.-)
    • W44 Foreign body entering into or through a natural orifice

S00-T88

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

Excludes 1

S00-T88

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

Excludes 2

T15

  • foreign body in penetrating wound of orbit and eye ball (S05.4-, S05.5-)
    • S05.4 Penetrating wound of orbit with or without foreign body
    • S05.5 Penetrating wound with foreign body of eyeball
  • S01.1 Open wound of eyelid and periocular area
  • 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-)
    • H05.5 Retained (old) foreign body following penetrating wound of orbit
    • H44.6 Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, magnetic
    • H44.7 Retained (old) intraocular foreign body, nonmagnetic
  • S00.25 Superficial foreign body of eyelid and periocular area

T15-T19

  • foreign body accidentally left in operation wound (T81.5-)
    • T81.5 Complications of foreign body accidentally left in body following procedure
  • foreign body in penetrating wound - See open wound by body region
  • M79.5 Residual foreign body in soft tissue
  • splinter, without open wound - See superficial injury by body region

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