959.7 LOWER LEG INJURY NOS

Code Information

  • Diagnosis Code: 959.7
  • Short Description: Lower leg injury NOS
  • Long Description: Knee, leg, ankle, and foot 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
        • 959.7 Lower leg injury NOS

Synonyms

  • Acute injury of posterior cruciate ligament
  • Calf injury
  • Compartment syndrome of lower limb
  • Complete division, extensor tendon, foot
  • Complete division, flexor tendon, foot
  • Complete division, patellar tendon
  • Complete division, tendo calcaneus
  • Fishing hook in great toe
  • Fishing hook in heel
  • Foreign body in lower leg
  • Foreign body in lower limb
  • Foreign body left in ankle/foot
  • Foreign body left in knee
  • Foreign body of foot
  • Heel injury
  • Injury of ankle
  • Injury of anterior cruciate ligament
  • Injury of collateral ligament of knee
  • Injury of cruciate ligament of knee
  • Injury of fibula
  • Injury of foot
  • Injury of great toe
  • Injury of great toenail
  • Injury of knee
  • Injury of lateral collateral ligament of knee
  • Injury of little toe
  • Injury of lower extremity
  • Injury of lower leg
  • Injury of medial collateral ligament of knee
  • Injury of multiple muscles and tendons at lower leg level
  • Injury of muscle
  • Injury of muscle
  • Injury of muscle and tendon at ankle and foot level
  • Injury of muscle and tendon at lower leg level
  • Injury of muscle and tendon of long extensor muscle of toe at ankle and foot level
  • Injury of muscle and tendon of long flexor muscle of toe at ankle and foot level
  • Injury of patella
  • Injury of posterior cruciate ligament
  • Injury of posterolateral corner of knee
  • Injury of tibia
  • Injury of toe
  • Injury to multiple structures of knee
  • Massive multi tissue damage foot
  • Massive multi tissue damage lower leg
  • Multiple injuries of ankle and/or foot
  • Partial division, extensor tendon of foot
  • Partial division, flexor tendon of foot
  • Pellet wound of ankle
  • Pellet wound of calf
  • Pellet wound of dorsum of foot
  • Pellet wound of foot
  • Pellet wound of great toe
  • Pellet wound of heel
  • Pellet wound of knee
  • Pellet wound of lower leg
  • Pellet wound of lower limb
  • Pellet wound of shin
  • Pellet wound of sole of foot
  • Pellet wound of toe
  • Severe multi tissue damage foot
  • Severe multi tissue damage lower leg
  • Shin injury
  • Traumatic division of tendon of lower limb
  • Traumatic injury of popliteus muscle
  • Turf toe

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 959.7 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

  • Injury 959.9
    • ankle (and foot) (and knee) (and leg, except thigh) 959.7
    • foot (and ankle) (and knee) (and leg, except thigh) 959.7
    • heel 959.7
    • knee (and ankle) (and foot) (and leg, except thigh) 959.7
    • leg, except thigh (and ankle) (and foot) (and knee) 959.7
      • upper or thigh 959.6
    • multiple (sites not classifiable to the same four-digit category in 959.0-959.7) 959.8
      • internal 869.0
        • with open wound into cavity 869.1
    • nail
      • toe 959.7
    • phalanges
      • foot 959.7
    • popliteal space 959.7
    • subungual
      • toes 959.7
    • toe (nail) (any) 959.7

Crosswalk Information

The code 959.7 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
959.7 Right Arrow S89.80XA Oth injuries of unspecified lower leg, init encntr
S89.90XA Unspecified injury of unspecified lower leg, init encntr
S99.819A Other specified injuries of unspecified ankle, init encntr
S99.919A Unspecified injury of unspecified ankle, 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
959.11 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
959.3 Elbow, forearm, and wrist injury
959.4 Hand, except finger injury
959.5 Finger injury
959.6 Hip and thigh 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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