959.3 ELB/FOREARM/WRST INJ NOS

Code Information

  • Diagnosis Code: 959.3
  • Short Description: Elb/forearm/wrst inj NOS
  • Long Description: Elbow, forearm, and wrist injury
  • Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Code Classification

  • Injury and poisoning (800–999)
    • Certain traumatic complications and unspecified injuries (958-959)
      • 959 Injury, other and unspecified
        • 959.3 Elb/forearm/wrst inj NOS

Synonyms

  • Bowstringing of tendon, wrist or hand
  • Compartment syndrome of upper limb
  • Complete division, both flexor tendons
  • Complete division, flexor digitorum superficialis tendon
  • Foreign body left in elbow
  • Foreign body left in wrist
  • Injury of elbow
  • Injury of extensor or abductor muscles and tendons of thumb at forearm level
  • Injury of forearm
  • Injury of multiple muscles and tendons at forearm level
  • Injury of muscle and tendon at forearm level
  • Injury of wrist
  • Massive multi tissue damage lower arm
  • Metal foreign body in elbow
  • Metal foreign body in forearm
  • Metal foreign body in wrist
  • Pellet wound of elbow
  • Pellet wound of forearm
  • Pellet wound of wrist
  • Severe multi tissue damage lower arm
  • Traumatic division of wrist ligament
  • Triangular fibrocartilage tear

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 959.3 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

  • Injury 959.9
    • elbow (and forearm) (and wrist) 959.3
    • forearm (and elbow) (and wrist) 959.3
    • wrist (and elbow) (and forearm) 959.3

Crosswalk Information

The code 959.3 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
959.3 Right Arrow S59.809A Other specified injuries of unspecified elbow, init encntr
S59.819A Other specified injuries unspecified forearm, init encntr
S59.909A Unspecified injury of unspecified elbow, initial encounter
S59.919A Unspecified injury of unspecified forearm, initial encounter
S69.80XA Oth injuries of unsp wrist, hand and finger(s), init encntr
S69.90XA Unsp injury of unsp wrist, hand and finger(s), init encntr
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
959.11 Other injury of chest wall
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
959.4 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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