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959.11 INJURY OF CHEST WALL NEC


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 959.11

Short Description: Injury of chest wall NEC

Long Description: Other injury of chest wall

Code Classification:

  • Injury and poisoning (800–999)
    • Certain traumatic complications and unspecified injuries (958-959)
      • 959 Injury, other and unspecified
        • 959.11 Injury of chest wall NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


Synonyms

  • Blunt injury of thorax
  • Chest injury
  • Costal cartilage injury
  • Injury of chest wall
  • Injury of front of chest
  • Injury of muscle and tendon at thorax level
  • Injury of ribs
  • Injury of side of chest
  • Injury of sternum
  • Metal foreign body in chest
  • Pellet wound of chest

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 959.11 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Injury 959.9
    • chest - see Injury, internal, chest
      • wall 959.11
    • costal region 959.11
    • costochondral 959.11
    • midthoracic region 959.11
    • sternal region 959.11
    • thorax, thoracic (external) 959.11
      • cavity - see Injury, internal, thorax
      • internal - see Injury, internal, intrathoracic organs

Crosswalk Information

The code 959.11 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
959.11 Right Arrow S29.8XXA Other specified injuries of thorax, initial encounter
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
959.01 Head injury, unspecified
959.09 Injury of face and neck
959.12 Other injury of abdomen
959.13 Fracture of corpus cavernosum penis
959.14 Other injury of external genitals
959.19 Other injury of other sites of trunk
959.2 Shoulder and upper arm injury
959.3 Elbow, forearm, and wrist injury
959.4 Hand, except finger injury
959.5 Finger injury
959.6 Hip and thigh injury
959.7 Knee, leg, ankle, and foot injury
959.8 Other specified sites, including multiple injury
959.9 Unspecified site injury

This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014

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