Diagnosis Code: 959.7

Short Description: Lower leg injury NOS

Long Description: Knee, leg, ankle, and foot injury

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

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

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):

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

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